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    Need Advice for Buying a new NAS

    No you can not simply place a drive from most NAS in a PC to get data off of it. Most use a non-windows format for the drives, as Thiggens said "EXT2/3/4, HFS+, XFS". With the EXT being the most common. Also it is also difficult if not impossible to read a single drive from a > 2 disk RAID set...
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    new Synology UI

    That's good. because as a Synology is a werewolf you have to use silver bullets.
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    NAS for home media

    To clarify. SATA III Drives are fully compatible with a SATA II controller and vice versa. So you can use what ever you want. However with a NAS it's a good idea to check and make sure that the drives you are looking at are on the compatibility list for the NAS you are looking at. If they...
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    Synology 111 vs. Qnap 119+/II

    The 119P II should probably hit about 100 MB/sec, assuming the HD you put in it can hit those speeds. Which is about a 50% improvement over the 119P +. However, if you are looking at the 119P II. I would probably look at a 2 bay nas. They aren't that much more expensive and do give you greater...
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    Synology/QNAP: 1.2GHz vs. 1.6GHz?

    Well it at least some of the 1.6ghz marvel based models also have more memory (512mb vs 256mb) which will factor into things as well. Are you talking H.264 transcoding or just streaming. AFAIK, none of the consumer level NAS have the horsepower for good performance at transcoding. Streaming...
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    OSX-Test Nas speed

    I take it you are looking for something other than "Copy a large bunch of files and use a timer", but have you thought about using AppleScript/Automator to set up the various types of runs done and also making it function as the timer? I suspect that's pretty much all most of the testing tools...
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    TS-212 drive configuration

    With two drives you only have two choices for RAID basically. RAID 0 (striped), where you add the capacity of the two drives together and get better write performance. RAID 1 (mirrored) is great if you want data security since everything is duplicated on both drives. You do also get better read...
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    Large Nas project 30TB

    Given that you are running Free NAS on it, I'm guessing you will only be using it as a NAS. So a second processor is unlikely to be of any use. Pretty much anything you stick in is way more powerful than most NAS. If you think you need more horsepower, then I would spend my money on a faster or...
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    Best NAS for VMWare

    I am not an expert on such things, but I believe you will want to focus on the iSCSI performance of the NAS, since iSCSI is designed with providing "virtual disks", like you would want with a VM. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-charts/bar/13-iscsi-write...
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    Please help me choose a NAS strategy

    Unfortunately, there really is no good simple, comprehensive backup solution at the consumer level. What you describe is basically as good as it typically gets for a small business or consumer, but there are some serious flaws if you are dealing with business critical data. The main drawback of...
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    1st NAS Build

    Managed switches are really only necessary for things like Link aggregation. Which is bonding multiple ethernet ports together to enable greater throughput, the catch is that 2 x gigabit ethernet ports does not get you 2 gigabit ethernet, but the ability to handle 2 gigabits worth of data at the...
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    NAS for small/medium business

    Part of my point was you don't need a 4-5 bay nas to get to 2 tb+, it's less secure than raid 1 and even a 2 drive unit can saturate a gigabit ethernet link. So you don't need it from a capacity, safety or performance standpoint. So you can have ample storage in a 2 bay unit like the Synology...
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    NAS for small/medium business

    Plus - Dell's pro support is extremely good IME and that is basically a low end server. The windows storage server is probably more capable than your typical nas. Minus- You are talking about $2400 for the base 2tb unit with the pro support and going to 8tb is another $1900. Which is pretty...
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    Synology DS411+II or Qnap TS-459 Pro+

    http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/31358-new-to-the-charts-qnap-ts-459-pro-reviewed Short answer is that both are very good and neither is dramatically better than the other. Same processors, ram, # of bays. Both perform very well. Synology is generally considered to have the...
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    Synology NAS as central file storage

    Yeah, you don't want to be using iSCSI. AFAIK, it's main use is for when you want to use NAS storage as a local drive for specific machines, not as a shared repository of data. Which is probably why you are having problems with it. As far as having to enter a password each time goes. At least...
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