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I think HP is your best solution. I am saying this because I assume you like the OS X's Time Machine functionality when you say it must be "mac compatible". If 'mac compatible' merely means that you have access to the data, I strongly suggest making your own NAS.
Benefits of making your own NAS easily outweigh the benefits of HP/Drobo or similar services. Here's what I'd suggest if you were making your own NAS. Start with your choice of PC (eee or diy), and setup at least 2TB RAID. (Based on how often you'll be writing files and the file-sizes, you may want to pick the correct RAID level). To be able to get close to DLNA, I suggest setting up UPnP (plenty info on Wikipedia and UPnP Forum). It's not equivalent of DLNA, but it'll get you close to it as far as media sharing goes. I would suggeset building your own simple PC instead of eee. That will help you add more disks internally (faster access, easy management, and performance tuning later on. Just in case.).
If money is not that big of an issue, you may want to consider Apple's Time Capsule. It's quite small, so you can stack 'em up, and get your OS X Time Machine functionality.
So, here's my suggestion. If OS X Time Machine fascility is important, I suggest HP or Apple Time Capsule. If your 'mac compatible' refers to beign able to read/write data, I tremendously suggest build your own pc with Core2Duo, 2TB hdd with RAID, and UPnP setup.
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January 23, 2009 08:55 PM
Which NAS solution should I choose?
I am currently reviewing some nas product and combination.
This is what I want/need
A crap load of storage, compatible with a mac, accessible from anywhere, and if it's DLNA compliant it's even better! The product must be available in Europe.
My two choices so far are the following:
A HP mediasmart server maxed out with the maximum amount of Tb and all the options.
Getting a iosafe (fire proof and water proof) 1.5Tb external hard drive, and an eee box with orb installed to stream all my content over the net. The advantage of this one is that I can add another 1.5Tb external drive when I want.
What do you think?
If you have other combinations or suggestions I'll be happy to hear them.
Thanks in advance!
This is what I want/need
A crap load of storage, compatible with a mac, accessible from anywhere, and if it's DLNA compliant it's even better! The product must be available in Europe.
My two choices so far are the following:
A HP mediasmart server maxed out with the maximum amount of Tb and all the options.
Getting a iosafe (fire proof and water proof) 1.5Tb external hard drive, and an eee box with orb installed to stream all my content over the net. The advantage of this one is that I can add another 1.5Tb external drive when I want.
What do you think?
If you have other combinations or suggestions I'll be happy to hear them.
Thanks in advance!
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Benefits of making your own NAS easily outweigh the benefits of HP/Drobo or similar services. Here's what I'd suggest if you were making your own NAS. Start with your choice of PC (eee or diy), and setup at least 2TB RAID. (Based on how often you'll be writing files and the file-sizes, you may want to pick the correct RAID level). To be able to get close to DLNA, I suggest setting up UPnP (plenty info on Wikipedia and UPnP Forum). It's not equivalent of DLNA, but it'll get you close to it as far as media sharing goes. I would suggeset building your own simple PC instead of eee. That will help you add more disks internally (faster access, easy management, and performance tuning later on. Just in case.).
If money is not that big of an issue, you may want to consider Apple's Time Capsule. It's quite small, so you can stack 'em up, and get your OS X Time Machine functionality.
So, here's my suggestion. If OS X Time Machine fascility is important, I suggest HP or Apple Time Capsule. If your 'mac compatible' refers to beign able to read/write data, I tremendously suggest build your own pc with Core2Duo, 2TB hdd with RAID, and UPnP setup.
Hope this helped.
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Mac compatible means that I have an Imac as my only computer, and that I am indeed using time machine to backup my imac. I have one 750Gb hdd dedicated to this only (the Imac has a 500Gb hdd).
I have another drive which is a 1Tb one which is not backuped, and where I put all my movies that I ripped up of my dvd's.
Concerning the power of the computer to use to build my own nas, I though about a mac mini, but it's much more expensive than a eee box, and the program orb to share my files over the internet only works with xp (of course I could install it on the mac mini, but it's always better if it's pre-installed).
And I also heard that they're going to release a new mac mini soon (like summer or so) so if I decide to go with a mac mini I will wait until it's replaced. Oh and something I didn't mention is it need to be quiet, because I live in a 1piece room, so I need to be able to sleep while it's on.
We'll see when they update this mac mini, maybe in th summer...