haha..the WD Green certainly won't be selling for 249 now, otherwise I'm pretty sure this seller will run out of stock under 15 minutes he put up the offer in our garage sales here..

hahaha I will be one of the few to grab if it is at that price

if its for real please PM me I'll glady grab a few units hahah!

Btw, DLink ShareCenter 320 NAS drop price to RM245 liao in penang. What happened? Suddenly the price drop so much after cny.

actually this is the startec pricelist i downloaded from the lowyat.net main page. unless they hav not yet updated yet la.
fortunately i still have 2x 160gb HDD from an older decommissioned server. still can play play for awhile. hahaha

320 has been priced like that in KL even before 2012 in All-IT mall for example.. Yes the 320, not the 323..

but the 320 spec is better than the 323 right? But the 323 is priced higher than 320...

can't remember bro becoz i have basically take this out from my NAS list due to poor comments found on the net.

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Added on February 9, 2012, 11:16 amif u guys don't mind an over spec HP model just for media storage, u may consider ML110 G6, $1388 promo price according to the reseller.

This post has been edited by numbertwo: Feb 9 2012, 11:16 AM

oh really? My friends who have been using the 323 have no complaints with it so far, not sure with the 320 since its still quite new.
My budget for a NAS is only RM300 for the casing...$1388 is too

what kind of power consumption can we expect from the ML110?

That's desktop size. What we are looking for is a small footprint.

It is a server spec, running on xeon so i guess power consumption won't be low..but expandability is there for sure.


So, anyone wanna tag along to get the N40L ?

i have one question regarding NAS

im planning to buy buffalo Linkstation 4 bay NAS
and currently i want to fill only 1 HDD due to HDD price is quite high rite now
so if i use the NAS (with only 1 HDD) to store my files..can i add one more HDD later to RAID it even though the 1st HDD already has file inside ?

rite now i need space so planning to buy one HDD...later when price down will purchase more

help me on this...thanks in advance

yes but prefer the addition HDD to be exact same capacity & make AND all the data in the 1st HDD will be erased.

depends on what kind of raid u setting it up for ...

the linkstation got online raid migration ? if dont have then u have to reinitialized your old disk with your new disk to make the raid

which means... reformat like that...

hi all, want to ask does Dlink 320 is good enough and easy to deploy? Just want to get a budget NAS to do online cloud for iPad and iPhone media and also personal document backup via cloud.

besides, for Business environment, which NAS is able to support multiple user login? What i mean is I want to create several folder for different department and also manager & staff private folder, and each of the folder got security right or password to specific which user can be access like that. Does this exist?

thanks for the reply

im planning to do RAID 0 to boost the performance...but because of this problem i think i should go for JBOD instead...

but can you explain to me of JBOD performance compared to RAID 0 ? coz im planning to buy WD Green which is worst in performance but bargain in spaces/price

as i read the feature of JBod does not have any data redundancy feature, is that bearable to you?

jbob is just a bunch of hdd that is grouped up into 1 continues big volume..

raid 0 , stripping = no data redundancy, for NAS no point to do raid 0 , since gigabit network speed is only about 100MB/s

while on average most hdd can read/write higher than that.. apart from that.. your using a normal NAS, which its processing power im not sure how powerful is it.. u might even get more worst performance..

if you wan speed, just fix the hdd into your desktop ....

if you want mass storage with redundancy get raid5 with nas..

Qnap and synology.

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Added on February 12, 2012, 9:21 pmFor nas, try use lowest rpm hdd. You want a reliable last long and run cooler hdd.

This post has been edited by ozak: Feb 12 2012, 09:21 PM

Hi,
do you have any experience with unRaid ? apparently this raid can support incremental HDDs..and it runs off a USB drive..