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Recent content by DaveS

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    How Do People Shop for NASes?

    Not *only*, but *mostly*. It also affects my decision in terms of total cost per TB storage. I could spend $600 on a 2-bay RAID 1 NAS with a pair of 3 TB hard drives. That's ~$200/TB. Conversely I might spend $1100 on a 4-bay RAID 5 NAS with a full compliment of 3 TB hard drives, bringing...
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    1 NAS, 2 VLANs, and other questions

    I don't much like throwing money away so cost is always a factor, though not necessarily the most important factor. Can you expand on your suggestion to use VLANs instead of a dual-NIC NAS? (Like I said, I'm a network noob. I hadn't heard of VLANs until I bought my routerboards and what I...
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    1 NAS, 2 VLANs, and other questions

    I've been doing a lot of research and reading through the forums, but I've run into questions that appear to fall outside of the usual "which NAS should I buy" type. I've been looking at prosumer level 4/5 bay devices, like the Synology DS412+, Thecus N5550, and QNAP 469L. My tentative...
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    How Do People Shop for NASes?

    Being in the market for my first NAS device, here's my take: First and foremost I look at the features. Price/performance doesn't mean anything if the device doesn't do what I want it to do. After that comes (in no particular order) ease-of-use, reputable support, and reliability. Once...
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    NAS Ranker: Is Class By Processor Useful?

    As a NAS noob, I didn't find it particularly useful. I think it's fair to rank their performance according to processor class, but as a "finder" it doesn't help me all that much. It would be much more useful to me to be able to filter based on the number of drive bays (I'm looking for 4-6) and...
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