RE: [OT] External Hard Disk

["Jim" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It has a fan, but is temperature controlled and most of the time is
only
just spinning.

You really do have to put your ear close to it to hear anything!



Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Geoff H
Sent: 31 August 2007 08:01
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] External Hard Disk


Jim,

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim" <jim@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:51 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] External Hard Disk


>I use a Synology DS207. Whisper quiet, runs cool and does the job very
>well.
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> The 207 is a two-drive unit, they do a single drive version (the 107).
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> You add your own SATA drives, so can be anything you like. I have a
pair
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> Seagate 500GB as a mirrored pair.
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> Jim
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Ho
> Yin Ng
> Sent: 30 August 2007 10:21
> To: ukha_d
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] External Hard Disk
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> Need to get an external hard disk so that I can use it at work to
store
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> my more personal stuff.
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> Can someone recommend a make they have used that is good value for
money
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> most importantly reliable.
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> Would help if it looked good as well.
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> Some people at work have the Maxtor Mybook - but I have never liked
Maxtor
> had lots of problems with their hard disks about 4-5 years ago, but
maybe
> things have improved?
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> Thanks
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> Ho yin
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