Re: What NAS device to reuse existing SATA drives?!

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cheers for that, I'll have a look for the diskless terrastation,

the synology stuff looks very good, I think that yes i'd up the drive
to a 300gb, I think im going to have to move to Raid 5 to have some
redundancy altho to be honest the thought of losing 300gb is a bit of
a pain (in terms of capacity that is).

Probably not as much as a pain as re-ripping all the dvds!!

As my pc server is only on when i use it not 24/7 (i know i know
shocking!!)  its slightly harder to justify nearly 400 quid for the
NAS!  removal of windows xp issues would be nice tho!!

thanks all

Noel

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Tim Hawes" <timsyahoo@...> wrote:
>
> Noel,
>
> I thought there was a "no-disk" Terrastation option but
can't find
it now...
>
> Have a look at the Synology range:
> http://www.synology.com/enu/products/CS406series/index.php
> The RS-406 & CS-406 would both appear to accomodate 4-off SATA
drives.
> You might want to swap your 4th 120GB for a 300GB to match the others
> and then get ~900GB (?) in a Raid 5 configuration.
>
> The RS & CS units have gigabit LAN and can accept external USB
hard
drives too.
>
> I've no personal experience of them, but they seemed to fit your
> requirements :-)
>
> HTH,
>
> Tim.
>
> On 1/1/07, noel_pilot <HA@...> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Happy new year to all, in true HA spirit Im planning the first of
> > 2007's purchases!!
> >
> > After my windows xp based media server keeps winding me up I've
> > decided I need to look into a NAS device of some sort.
> >
> > I've got 3 x 300Gb SATA drives in the server and a 4th SATA drive
> > thats 120Gb,
> >
> > Ideally I'd like some kind of Terrastation style enclosure that I
> > could just put these drives in!?
> >
> > Any recommendations on this one, i know there's icy box
enclosures and
> > such and there's the netgear sc101 but im looking for somehting
that
> > will work with pc's, macs, xboxes, etc with no need for client
software!!
> >
> > Thanks all
> >
> > Noel
>