Monoprice 11157 nas = $130.13 on Amazon

[inPicton]

List is $600 US. Selling on Amazon.ca for 599.99. Reviews on Amazon are lousy.

I think that NAS boxes in general are 'way over priced. Up here in Canada for sure.

Anybody agree or am I out to lunch?

Regards, Paul.

 

[stevech]

Don't agree. Data is valuable. Time to cope/recover is a big deal.
I never have, never will cheap-out on disk drives or NASes.
Cheap out on other stuff, but not that.

Don't confuse a RAID box of drive slots with ...

You're paying for the hardware, but moreover, the great NAS software from the likes of Synology, QNAP, maybe 1 or 2 more.

 

[inPicton]

Okay, I'm out to lunch. I appreciate your feedback, and your points make sense.

Thank you.

Regards, Paul.

 

[KenZ71]

$600 for 4 drive bays? No thanks.

Late December I put this together with for just under $300

NAS4Free Build
Link:http://smile.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/L2F29OE5U3S9

 

[inPicton]

I'll look into that approach, Ken.

Right now I'm using Macrium Reflect to do incremental bu to a 1 gb Hitachi drive that was lying around. I ran SpinRite, all okay . Twice over the past 15 years I stupidly didn't backup external drives. The latest is a Seagate drive that won't spin-up, will do the refrigerator method eventually.

I'm in the learning mode right now. So many methods / choices...

Regards, Paul.

 

[L&LD]

$600 for 4 drive bays? No thanks.

Late December I put this together with for just under $300

NAS4Free Build
Link:http://smile.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/L2F29OE5U3S9

What did you follow to set it up? How long did it take, total hours?

 

[KenZ71]

What did you follow to set it up? How long did it take, total hours?

It was running on my own as I have set up NAS4Free a few times. It is quite easy. Most difficult part was making the usb stick bootable!

3 - 4 hours maybe, if that. Download the software from sourceforge, copy to a usb stick, copy again and make bootable, install then futzing with settings.

Set router to give a static ip to NAS4Free, setup file shares, setup SMART monitoring and verify email on alerts works.

I am quite happy with the final result.

 

[sfx2000]

List is $600 US. Selling on Amazon.ca for 599.99. Reviews on Amazon are lousy.

I think that NAS boxes in general are 'way over priced. Up here in Canada for sure.

Anybody agree or am I out to lunch?

Regards, Paul.

Hard to tell - PowerPC 1GHz based 4Bay NAS... 512MB RAM, 2 ethernet, 3 USB ports...

specs below:

CPU AMCC APM82181 1GHz
RAM 512MB (DDR-2)
Hard Drive Support 4x 3.5" SATA 6.0Gbps (SATA III)
RAID Level RAID 0, 1, 5, JBOD
Host Interface 2x Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet(1 for Hub)
Expansion Ports 3x USB2.0 (for Pen Drive & Printer)
Supported Protocols Samba, AFP, NFS, FTP, HTTP, iSCSI
Supported Operating Systems Windows, Mac, Linux
Security SSH
File System (Internal HDD) Ext4
File System (External USB) NTFS, XFS, FAT32, FAT16, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4
Networking IPv4, DHCP Client, UPnP, Bonjour
Supports Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T. Yes
Supports Windows Active Directory Client Yes
Supports iSCSI Yes
Personal Cloud Server Syncbox
Mobile Access Apps iOS, Android
Multilingual Support Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English
Korean, German, Russian
Multimedia Server iTunes®, UPnP
Supports Apple Time Machine Yes
Download Station Bitorrent
Printer Server Yes
Maximum Users 1024
Supports User Quotas Yes
Maximum Groups 256
Online Firmware Update Yes
NAS Discovery Tool Yes (Windows Only)
LED Indicator Data access, Alarm, Power on
Hardware Monitor System Temperature, Fan
Cooling Fan 1x 80mm, 2400 rpm
Buzzer Yes
Power Supply 100 ~ 240 VAC, 50/60 Hz, 150W
LCM Monitor System Information
Dimensions 8.3" x 4.9" x (212 x 125 x 168 mm)
Weight 8.2 lbs. (3.7 Kg)