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What NAS product or combination of NAS products would best suit the following home network requirements: RAID 1 storage for important media, eg. photos, home video, etc with minimum capacity of 500GB. RAID 0 storage for other media and backups, eg. TV recordings, DVD rips, music etc with minimum capacity of 2TB with the …

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  1. Mark 9

    Build yer own

    All of them are compromises.

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  2. Andres
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    DNS-323

    Does all of the above. I have had mine a year now without a squeak. It also has a built-in bittorrent client (if that is for you..) and it's price has come down a lot. I loaded mine with 2X1Gb Samsung drives for 1Gb of RAIDed safe storage.

    See http://www.trustedreviews.com/networking/review/2006/11/20/D-Link-DNS-323/p1

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  3. jake Silver badge

    Speed, thru'-put & bandwidth.

    Rather than me re-inventing the wheel, see:

    http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/net/overhead/

    and

    http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/jumbo.html

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  4. Andres

    >1Gb

    Errr..I of course meant 2X1Tb, not a massive 2x1Gb drives.

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  5. Brutus

    you're going about it the wrong way

    Use RAID 1 for all of the data on the NAS and then burn all your valueable stuff (photos, wedding video etc) to optical of some description.

    RAID != backup !!!!!

    Personally I have a DNS-323, not bad really. Just make sure you update the firmware to whatever the latest version is before putting any data on it. Soem of the earlier releases did nasty things.

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  6. MattyB
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    QNAP NAS + USB drive backup

    Personally I have a QNAP 209 with two 1TB drives, mirrored and then a seperate 1TB USB drive for a seperate backup (to protect against catastrophic failure of the QNAP). Good thing being that the QNAP has a one touch backup to USB drives so anytime I make a significant update to my video library I reconnect the USB drive and hit the backup button

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