Hope someone can help.
I have been using a quantity of old Arkara dual bay NAS drives set up in RAID 1 and used for archiving mainly, but one was used dependantly for my main data which was 'connected' to 4 PC's on my Windows network.
I ONLY used drive-mapping and ONLY wish to use it in the future too.
But two of these units have failed after many years use (including the main store) so I would like to buy a new NAS for my main data store. I can no longer buy Arkara's otherwise I would suffice with a new one of those.
I find the new ones currently available FAR too complex and 'over-engineered' in features for my use. I have no time or inclination to use these sophisticated monsters that seem to want to take control of everything using it's own GUI etc. All I want is a simple Dos-type (drive-mapped in Windows 7/8) so that I can also set up my 'shortcuts' etc to backup from this main NAS to my secondary NAS stores etc. In other words just a simple set-up for drive-mapping from a PC.
My hardware requirements are modest. Just say a twin 4TB setup (2 x 2TB) and not really bothered about speed. But MUST be totally reliable and simple to set up with drive-mapping.
I bought a Synology 216j and after two days fiddling I still can't get it to work properly with my system so am returning it.
I wondered if there was something simpler without all the extravagance. ie I do not want to 'stream' from it or bake pies with it. Just a simple 'central store' for my data files (mainly photo images and video etc).
Hope someone has an idea.
Many thanks.
Barry
I have been using a quantity of old Arkara dual bay NAS drives set up in RAID 1 and used for archiving mainly, but one was used dependantly for my main data which was 'connected' to 4 PC's on my Windows network.
I ONLY used drive-mapping and ONLY wish to use it in the future too.
But two of these units have failed after many years use (including the main store) so I would like to buy a new NAS for my main data store. I can no longer buy Arkara's otherwise I would suffice with a new one of those.
I find the new ones currently available FAR too complex and 'over-engineered' in features for my use. I have no time or inclination to use these sophisticated monsters that seem to want to take control of everything using it's own GUI etc. All I want is a simple Dos-type (drive-mapped in Windows 7/8) so that I can also set up my 'shortcuts' etc to backup from this main NAS to my secondary NAS stores etc. In other words just a simple set-up for drive-mapping from a PC.
My hardware requirements are modest. Just say a twin 4TB setup (2 x 2TB) and not really bothered about speed. But MUST be totally reliable and simple to set up with drive-mapping.
I bought a Synology 216j and after two days fiddling I still can't get it to work properly with my system so am returning it.
I wondered if there was something simpler without all the extravagance. ie I do not want to 'stream' from it or bake pies with it. Just a simple 'central store' for my data files (mainly photo images and video etc).
Hope someone has an idea.
Many thanks.
Barry
