Suggestions for home storage solution
I work at home, and I often have files upwards of 4GB. Would a normal NAS FAT32 be adequate or do I need a NTFS because of file size? How is data recovery with NTFS if something happens to the NAS? Would I need to buy a GLAN? Any advice, including brands, is welcome.
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June 3, 2010 1:22 PM
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June 4, 2010 6:53 PM
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For home storage and going to assume that you would want to access this storage from multiple machines, I would get NAS appliance that has RAID protection.
Take a look at Buffalo Technology's solution and look at the total size you would require.
Here's the link: http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/home-and-small-office/
Iomega also has some nice home NAS solution which are RAIDed so that you can survive a disk failure on the device.
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I’ll give you my answer to this based on my personal experience – I have an HP StorageWorks X510 Data Vault. It’s based on Windows Home Server, so for a home storage solution it’s FAR easier to use than NAS. I have four PC’s on my network; my 10 year old son installed the Data Vault, we installed the client software on our PCs and its automatic. My PCs are backed up every night – it has built in deduplication so those files that I have on multiple PCs aren’t taking up space. It has built-in video conversion tools, media streaming, local and remote file sharing.
We just announced our X310 – a lower cost version of the X510. It has all of the same features minus the video conversion and remote media streaming. I have a blog post with podcast talking about it: X310 blog and podcast.
There may be other products that best address what you want but I love my Data Vault!
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