shake-the-disease wrote:
davep;198736 Wrote:
Just my opinion of course - I'm sure there are NAS fans who will
suggest benefits that I am unable to see for myself.
davep
Compared to my old PC SS setup, my new NAS SS solution is far quieter
(no fans and a quiet HDD), far smaller and
Patrick Dowling wrote:
I also have a Mac and two 400Gb Firewire/USB drives. One as a
primary and one as a backup which stays disconnected and powered off
till I want to run another backup. The software that I use for the
drive copying is called SuperDuper http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
y360 wrote:
If I had to buy a new external hard drive, I'd consider the faster eSATA
interface rather than USB/FW, e.g. Western Digital WDG1SU5000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esata#eSATA_compared_to_other_buses
Looks nice, but as long as all my PC's have standard USB interfaces,
many
I have 2 WD MyBook drives, one of them died 3 days after purchase and
was replaced. I also had an episode of disk errors which was remedied
by running the disk check utility. Reading Amazon reviews, the WD
MyBook indeed has reliability issues but on the other hand priced very
attractively.
I
shake-the-disease;199193 Wrote:
Compared to my old PC SS setup, my new NAS SS solution is far quieter
(no fans and a quiet HDD), far smaller and was cheap.
Can you please share with us your detailed setup?
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mortslim
y360;198799 Wrote:
If I had to buy a new external hard drive, I'd consider the faster eSATA
interface rather than USB/FW, e.g. Western Digital WDG1SU5000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esata#eSATA_compared_to_other_buses
I have been looking at Western products and feedback, was concerned
davep;198736 Wrote:
Just my opinion of course - I'm sure there are NAS fans who will
suggest benefits that I am unable to see for myself.
davep
Compared to my old PC SS setup, my new NAS SS solution is far quieter
(no fans and a quiet HDD), far smaller and was cheap. The first 2
Can anyone walk me through the benefits/drawbacks of NAS vs. a basic USB
external drive? I haven't started to rip my collection yet (just bought
the SB3 a few days ago) and I want to set this up right. I'm really not
interested in the ability to share my music files across any other
I would stay away from the NAS like others have suggested for cost,
performance and flexibility reasons. It's cheaper to buy two
external drives and using one as a backup than purchasing a NAS and
setting up the RAID. After which you still don't have a stand alone
backup.
I also have a
If I had to buy a new external hard drive, I'd consider the faster eSATA
interface rather than USB/FW, e.g. Western Digital WDG1SU5000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esata#eSATA_compared_to_other_buses
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y360
y360's
Also, Microsoft's synctoy does a nice job of incrementally mirroring one
hard disk's files to another
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx
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y360
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This is the info I needed. I think I'll stay away from the NAS and go
with 2 externals Thanks,
Tex
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Can anyone walk me through the benefits/drawbacks of NAS vs. a basic USB
external drive? I haven't started to rip my collection yet (just bought
the SB3 a few days ago) and I want to set this up right. I'm really not
interested in the ability to share my music files across any other
computers.
My opinion - albeit based on experience with only one of the options,
but considerable anecdotal reading of the other - is to forget the NAS
idea and go with simple external hard disks (USB or Firewire). The
reason for saying this is the significant number of threads in this
forum over the past
TexasRugger;198732 Wrote:
Can anyone walk me through the benefits/drawbacks of NAS vs. a basic USB
external drive? I haven't started to rip my collection yet (just bought
the SB3 a few days ago) and I want to set this up right. I'm really not
interested in the ability to share my music
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