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Recent content by nheather

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    What would be my best approach

    I have a Synology 216, with just one 4TB - plenty for what we need. But recently I have had a couple of mechanical hard drives fail (not in the NAS but various other computers) and that has left me a little nervous. The disks I lost weren’t that important and I did not lose any data but made...
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    Mixing HomePlugs (Powerline Adapters)

    Hi Pete, Thanks for the response. Yes I understand that if an AV500 connects to an AV1200 it will operate at 500 Mbps. The nuance to my question is what happens if you have three Powerlines, 1200 (A), 1200 (B) and 500 (C) and they connect to form simultaneous circuits Circuit 1:- A<>B...
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    Mixing HomePlugs (Powerline Adapters)

    Hi, The FAQ on the TP-Link website says that you can mix their AV and AV2 Powerline adapters but stresses that it will only work at the lowest speed. That much seems obvious but what it does make clear is whether it is the connection segment that will run at a lower speed or the whole adapter...
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    Powerline/HomePlug Advice Sought

    No I don't have any ARC breakers. Over ethernet is fine, approaching 100Mbps or 1000Mbps depending on whether I am using a Gigbit connection or not. Cheers, Nigel
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    Powerline/HomePlug Advice Sought

    Hi, I currently use TP-Link AV 500 home plugs. Never questioned the performance until recently I tried to stream from my new Synology NAS and found that I get stuttering. This is streaming uncompressed Blurays, I have tried a few that have been compressed with Handbrake and they stream fine...
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    DS116 or DS216j

    Thanks, found the answers. For anyone else interested YES - the backup can be read directly by another computer NO - you can't choose what to back up - it is everything or nothing. This is a bit of a 'turn off' for me as it means that I would have to get a portable drive which is as big as...
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    DS116 or DS216j

    That's great, thanks for the information. Do you know if 1 - a savepoint can be defined as certain folders on the NAS or whether it has to be the whole NAS. 2 - if the savepoint is saved to a USB drive, would that it be readable on another computer or does it use a proprietry format that can...
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    DS116 or DS216j

    Hi, Thanks for the advice. The WD MyCloud looks interesting. I would use it for filestore and PC backups. Filestore is straight forward, for backup I would like to 1 - backup from my family's PCs to the NAS 2 - backup from the NAS filestore to a connected USB drive Ideally, I would like...
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    DS116 or DS216j

    Good question, and I do feel that I am being a little unfair on Buffalo as it has served me well for many years. There is probably more than a little snobbery and people saying "Buffalo, pah!, get a real NAS like a Synology or QNAP". So ignorring brand image this is what I have against my...
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    DS116 or DS216j

    I am about to retire my very old 500GB Buffalo LinkStation. Another LinkStation would be the cheapest option - I could get the 4Gb 510 for just under £200 - on paper it seems just as fast as the Synology entry range. But I feel the Synology should be the better technology but which one. It is...
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    Synology 216j with Single Disk

    Some beginners questions. Can I begin with a 216j with just one disk? Then a a later date could I add another disk and set it up as a separate volume. Not really interested in RAID. And would this be sensible or would this be a poor way to set it up, or a waste, paying for functionality that...
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    USB 2.0 vs 3.0

    Hi, Looking at replacing my old Buffalo Linkstation - it's only 500GB but I don't need that much. Thinking of going to 2TB which is loads or maybe as much as 4TB which is ginormous. So figure I only need a single drive NAS with an attached USB drive for backup. So have been looking at the...
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    Buffalo Linkstation - What HDD do they use?

    Hi, Does anyone know what make/model drives Buffalo use in their single disk LinkStations? Cheers, Nigel
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    Upgrade from very old Linkstation

    Thanks for the info. The plan is to transfer data from the old NAS to new NAS and then trash the old one - I don't consider it reliable enough for further use. Any recommendations - am I best sticking with something like a Buffalo Linkstation or WD MyCloud or go with something like a Synology...
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    Upgrade from very old Linkstation

    Hi, I currently have an old Buffalo Linkstation - think it is a version 1 LS-CHL and it is just 500GB. Looking to replace it because 1) It is pretty much full 2) It has had a few wobbles where it has failed to start up It is only used as a centralised file store - documents, photos. I don't...
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