RE: NAS recommendations? - was 'Watchdog software?'

[Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Those Synology RS-407 look a bitt too expensive for my tastes !

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Thanks for the tip, I'll check the power usage before I buy :-)

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Sent: 30 April 2007 12:36
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Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Watchdog software?

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You are still going to have to look at power consumption as some NAS=20
will use as much power as a PC.

Personally I am thinking of upgrading my QNAP TS-101 (which has been=20
very good) to a Synology Rackmounted RS-407. This unit has AD=20
integration and consumes from 70 down to 20Wats.

Paul

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> As part of on going drive to reduce my electric bill (currently=20
paying =A3111 a month!) I'm thinking of getting some kind of low=20
powered NAS device to use
> as a server for video and music.
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> Currently all the movies and mp3's reside in the MP3 jukebox=20
machine (old 800 Duron running XP + XLobby). If I can move the data=20
off onto a NAS then this machine can go into suspend/hibernate mode=20
when no one is playing music.
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> Does anyone have any recommendations for a reasonable, cheap NAS ?=20
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> I'm currently looking at the NSLU2 "slug". Its cheap and
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hacks..
> My main concern is bandwidth.. when playing movies to multiple=20
XBOXES
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> Marcus
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