RE: Re: [OT] External Hard Disk

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do any of these standalone server solutions actually support USB hubs
so
that you can add more than just one (or however many USB ports it has) hard
discs as time progresses?

I keep thinking of retiring the Mac Mini as my main server but there's
about
6Tb of storage on there now (IIRC) and it just does the job so well!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Bendall
> Sent: 31 August 2007 11:20
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: [OT] External Hard Disk
>
> I like the look of the Synology kit but am thinking of going for the
> RS-407 gives plenty of options for now and the future, it is rack
> mountable and power consumption is well under 70W with 21W in
> hibernation mode.
>
> Paul
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> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Geoff H" <yahoo@...> wrote:
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> > Jim,
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> > Interesting to know the Synology unit is quiet. I bought a 'cheap
> and
> > cheerful' diskless NAS unit from CPC and shoved in a couple of
> 500Gb disks.
> > The unit works well enough, SMB, NFS, FTP, RAID 0,1, etc but is
> very noisy
> > (fan etc).
> >
> > Now that I have decided that 'I need a NAS' I am looking to
replace
> this
> > with something better. The Synology DS207 is on the list, as is
the
> DLink
> > DNS-323. The main criteria is it has to be quiet.
> >
> > Geoff
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