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I have a trio of Motorola NIM100 MoCA devices that I've used for years. I upgraded to Whole Home DVR at home (BrightHouse), which uses MoCA. Equipment is Samsung (SMT-H3272 DVR) and two Cisco (4742HDC) converters. If I turn on any of my NIM100's, the Cisco converters loose their MoCA...

I'm looking for some options on a low cost cable/DSL router that will have enough QoS support to honor packet prioritization for a hosted VoIP service (8x8 in particular). I realize I get no QoS over the internet, but I want to make sure QoS is honored within the network (LAN side of the...

What would you be looking to get for the unit without drives?

The market for consumer wifi access points is extremely thin, and usually those products have poor wireless performance from what I've seen when compared to consumer routers. I'm not willing to shell out the cash for a 802.11n enterprise grade AP. I got my 1121G free from work, I would have...

Hopping in here since I'm looking for a new router to replace my Cisco AIR-AP1121G Wireless AP. This is a true Cisco product and it has served me well for years, but it's on the slow side these days. I tried a 4th gen Airport Extreme, but it was horrible compared to the Cisco unless I was...

Norco cases are extremely popular with the DIY large storage array builders on hardforum.com. See if they have anything that meets your needs.

When you use a true hardware RAID card, the entire RAID subsystem (controller and drives) is self-contained to those drives and controller. If the OS is not on the RAID subsystem, or on a dedicated partition on the RAID subsystem, and the OS corrupts to the point that you need to reload, or...

Either one will serve your purpose. Synology has a fancy new Java based GUI coming out (currently in beta) if you are into that kind of stuff. QNAP affords more tweaker capabilites largely due to the aftermarket community putting more involvement into it. QNAP support stories vary from...

When the RAID controller has it's own processor. Onboard RAID and those cheap RAID cards do not have a processor. They have a BIOS and SATA/SAS controller to manage the array, but all RAID calculations are handled by your systems processor. Software RAID is done purely at the OS level...

I have a TS-459 Pro and debated going to the 5 drive model for that "future expansion". When I came to my senses, I realized that with 4x2TB drives, and the typical growth rate of my data set relative to HDD size growth rate and pricing, I determined that I would probably never use the 5th bay...

There is nothing special about Time Machine over the network, it's just the way apple designed it to use a certain protocol to allow use of TimeMachine without the file system on the device being formatted as HFS+ There is a basic change you can make in OSX in terminal to allow the use of ANY...

There is also FreeNAS

I remember that the earliest models of the NV where known to have a noisy cooling fan. Infrant changed the fan they where using due to customer complaints. I think they may have even offered to provider customers a free replacement fan, but don't hold me to that. It's a standard sized fan...

If you look at a NAS that uses the Atom D510 dual-core processor, you'll see that you can sustain > 100 MB/s read and 90-95 MB/s write with a RAID array. A NAS is not really streamlined at all for the hardware. The run Linux and use mdadm for RAID, and open source services for everything else...

DLNA based streaming methods are more efficient than SMB. If you're doing it all over wired ethernet, it won't matter much. But if you're trying to squeeze 40Mbit over 802.11n wifi, than DLNA would yield better result, although sustaining 40Mbit over N wifi is not likely in the first place...