I am looking at getting a 2 (two) HDD NAS, the three that I have found so far are the: Thecus N2100 Thecus N299 Icy Box IB-NAS4220 EDIT: D-Link DNS 323 They basically all do very much the same things, but is there any one of these four that stand out from the other 3, or is there another make/model of NAS that I am missing? Thanks. ________ Prilosec settlement information
You got me looking now I'd get the Netgear ReadyNAS RND2000 and pop in a couple big disks. The RND2000 seems like the full package to me. I know it's above 100 but I reckon it's well worth the cost. I found this guys site for pics and all: http://www.shadowandy.net/tag/rnd2000
Thanks for the reply, still have not bought anything so this is something else to think about. A question that arises with the ReadyNAS, from looking at the specs it seems that if you have 2 HDDs in it, they must run in some form of RAID and cannot be operated each as a single volume, is there anyway to run the HDDs as single HDDs and not in RAID? Thanks... ________ Novana Residence Condominium
I think you are looking for a JBOD function. I believe it stands for "Just a bunch of Drives" and allows more than one physical disk to be viewed as one logical disk. You may wish to have a look at Small Net Builder for reviews on NAS.
Does JBOD not take a number of different sizes of HDDs and put them into one larger logical volume, if so this is not what I am referring to when I say "if you have 2 HDDs ....they cannot be operated each as a single volume" ie., that each is seen as a separate HDD (volume)... And it doesn't appear to do JBOD either... ________ Milena4male
