RE: Would I Benefit from a NAS Drive?

["Brian Smith" <briview@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Darren

I'd go for a an external USB drive for a couple of reasons.  Firstly cost -
External USB drives can be had for pretty much the same price as a bare
drive.  Secondly performance - Unless you would go mid-top end of the range
NAS you will get better performance from local USB.  Also would large file
sizes be a requirement.  Most cheap NAS units only support FAT32 so have
2GB
file size limit.

The only reason I could think NAS might be preferable is if you intend to
locate it away from the main PC, the garage in my case, to provide an
element of off-site backup.

My 2p worth anyway.

Cheers

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
darren_karp2001
Sent: 16 January 2008 19:35
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Would I Benefit from a NAS Drive?

Hi all,

At home I have a PC under the stairs which runs my Geovision CCTV
system and is also used to store DVD rips and MP3's. My Vista MCE PC
is configured to use this PC for its media content although it itself
has ample hard drive storage for live TV, etc. but is put to sleep at
the end of each evenings TV viewing.

I have two laptops and an additional PC, none of which use any of the
media content in the house. I also have a Soundbridge in our bedroom.

The reason for the question is that the Geovision PC is running very
very low on hard drive space and I was wondering whether I should
simply add either an extra HD (it's an old PC and doesn't have SATA),
add an external USB drive or go for a NAS drive.

I would warmly welcome any comments and advice.

Darren