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• 30 Sep 2017

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My old Buffalo NAS drive has finally given up and failed.

I was just going to buy a new one of same make/model but as there are loads of different out there does anyone have a good recommendation from personal experience?

 

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• 4 Oct 2017

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Synology. I have a 2 bay and a 4 bay. Friggin brilliant bit of kit and very fast too over a decent network

 

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• 15 Oct 2017

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motorbiking said:

Synology. I have a 2 bay and a 4 bay. Friggin brilliant bit of kit and very fast too over a decent network

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• 15 Oct 2017

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I bought a WD My Cloud 3tb for £85.

Very quiet/ silent in operation.

Use it to host flac files for my Sonos system which it does very well!.

 

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• 15 Oct 2017

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No personal experince, but a recent Web User review gave these three.

Gold award: Synology DS216j £161
Silver award: Qnap TS251A £263
Bronze award Bufallo Link station 520 £88

How many drives did you have in it, and what have you got attached to it.

 

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• 16 Oct 2017

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I wold personally recommend a 4 bay, particularly if you plan to re-use old drives. Having said that 4TB WD Reds are going around a £100 now, so it depends how much storage you need.

 

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• 16 Oct 2017

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I like the idea of one that constantly backs up the other in case 1 malfunctions. A 4 bay would be a bit over kill I think. 2 bay and probably 2tb each would suffice. Thanks for the feedback all I still can't decide going to wait for Black Friday to see if any super deals come along.

 

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• 16 Oct 2017

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obviously if it’s RAID1 then 2 2Tb drives only gives you 2tb.

You can normally plug a USB mobile disk in for backup.

 

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• 16 Oct 2017

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If all you want is RAID 1, and no facilities on the NAS drive, then stick with the Bufallo drive. If you need the facilities on a printer etc attached to the drive, then wiat for the sales, and see if you can pick up the Qnap.

I assume you know the different RAID levels, but here's a quick bit for any that don't