which home NAS/media share

[nige]

hi,

i have recently been through a nightmare with a failed Raid device and need a new home storage/backup/media share solution, which is not raid!
i will be using it to store pics, music, video.
it is a 2 mac home plus iphones with the occassional pc.
i would like to have an itunes server so i can play stored music on any computer.
i would like it to be as quiet as possible and most systems i see have multiple fans which i guess makes them a bit annoying in a small home office or lounge (i could hear my old WD raid device over the TV!).

i was wondering about products such as the lacie network space 2 or similar?
any thoughts on those kind of devices?

another option was the seagate free agent goflex net media as i have one of those usb drives already and travel a lot for work so to be able to remove a drive and take it with me would be great, however the online access thing is a bit worrying.

so, sorry for the long post but due to my recent nightmare with a Raid device (a WD mybook; the power board failed and so i lost everything!) i want to get this decision right!!!

thanks
nige

 

[thiggins]

RAID is not backup, as you have painfully learned. If you switch to a non-RAID NAS, you still must have a backup of your data on another device, or you risk the same fate.

Use the NAS Finder to find candidate NASes. I found 6 single drive NASes with "Very Low" noise ratings and 3 more with "Low" noise ratings.

Pretty much all NASes today have iTunes servers.

 

[nige]

thanks

Tim,

thanks for that, i actually didnt find the nas finder page previously!
great service.
thankyou

nige