Looking for a possible NAS solution

Joe 90 · 14-06-2010, 19:46

Since getting my mac i've barely used my PC but I still have all my photos and a whole load of video files on it. I thought the easiest option here would be to get a NAS.
I've been looking recently at them and options seemed to be in the price range of a few hundred, to almost as much as you want.

but I've just found this; http://www.shop.bt.com/products/netg...nas--6KTT.html

I guess I could pick that up and get 2 bigger disks for it and it'd prove perfect as a NAS to store all my images/music/video and be accessible to all machines in the house.
Anybody know anything about those netgear machines, or have anything to add? I've never had anything more than an external disk, don't know much about NASs :/

Del Lardo · 14-06-2010, 20:40

If you're going for Netgear then go for a ReadyNAS Duo, it's a bit more money but the hardware is far, far better. You also get a 5 year warrantee on the HDDs that come pre-installed.

Burble · 14-06-2010, 20:55

Low end Netgear NAS boxes have historically been pretty poor, often needing software to be installed on the clients in order to let them access the NAS. Couple that to bad performance and crazy power saving settings that you can't alter and I'll not go near a low end Netgear NAS box again.

With all the lower end NAS boxes try to find some real world usage figures, don't think that it having a gigabit ethernet port means you'll get decent performance. They have a low end CPU, very limited RAM and as they're doing all the RAID stuff in software the box just doesn't have the grunt for giving acceptable data transfer speeds.

The ReadyNAS Duo is a good piece of kit though, I've got a couple of them in the office for use as low tier storage and they do the job very well.

14-06-2010, 19:46	#1
Joe 90 Absinthe Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chester Posts: 2,345	Looking for a possible NAS solution Since getting my mac i've barely used my PC but I still have all my photos and a whole load of video files on it. I thought the easiest option here would be to get a NAS. I've been looking recently at them and options seemed to be in the price range of a few hundred, to almost as much as you want. but I've just found this; http://www.shop.bt.com/products/netg...nas--6KTT.html I guess I could pick that up and get 2 bigger disks for it and it'd prove perfect as a NAS to store all my images/music/video and be accessible to all machines in the house. Anybody know anything about those netgear machines, or have anything to add? I've never had anything more than an external disk, don't know much about NASs :/ __________________ 360 Blog \| Join GiffGaff \| Twitter

14-06-2010, 20:40	#2
Del Lardo Absinthe Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cambridge Posts: 2,539	If you're going for Netgear then go for a ReadyNAS Duo, it's a bit more money but the hardware is far, far better. You also get a 5 year warrantee on the HDDs that come pre-installed.

14-06-2010, 20:55	#3
Burble Rocket Fuel Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 7,826	Low end Netgear NAS boxes have historically been pretty poor, often needing software to be installed on the clients in order to let them access the NAS. Couple that to bad performance and crazy power saving settings that you can't alter and I'll not go near a low end Netgear NAS box again. With all the lower end NAS boxes try to find some real world usage figures, don't think that it having a gigabit ethernet port means you'll get decent performance. They have a low end CPU, very limited RAM and as they're doing all the RAID stuff in software the box just doesn't have the grunt for giving acceptable data transfer speeds. The ReadyNAS Duo is a good piece of kit though, I've got a couple of them in the office for use as low tier storage and they do the job very well.