egd;183920 Wrote: > Basically, IMHO I think home/SOHO NAS solutions are currently a joke and > cannot be relied upon for reliably storing data. While something is definitely not right with your present arrangement, imho condemning all home/SOHO NASs is a huge overstatement. My experience (with Buffalo LinkStation HG, definitely at the low end of the NAS market) and that of many others has shown that these little NASs do a good job at their intended purpose: providing network storage for small networks. And they are as reliable as other hard disks, which means that yes, they will die some day.
Just from reading other posts, it seems that a lot of the performance and other problems come along with the more "advanced home" NASs that have RAID and such. Because users paid more, expectations are higher, and RAID makes things considerably more complicated. I've yet to understand the fad for RAID in most home settings -- how critical is it that home users not suffer any down time in the inevitable-though-rare event of a disk crash? Granted, office situations are a different story. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33041 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
