Any ideas i need to 2 Nas one at home and another one at office so any work done at office will be sync by another Nas at home the data storage would be around 10 TB and both are using Unifi Biz 10

and why is that, if you mind explaining?

The trick to home made NAS is building a reliable rig that can run 24x7. PSU that can tahan long, protection against dust and heat which is the main killer. I do commercial photography work and store my work on the NAS and have 3x1.5TB on RAID + 1x2TB non RAID where I download my music, videos, books, etc.

Absolutely right Ozak. I figured with the components I have, the biggest worry for me is the actual harddisks themselves. I run RAID on stripped across the 3 units of 1.5TB Green drives which run at a lower RPM and is designed to work 24x7. Having said that, no RAID setup is fool proof and best practice is to perform backups regularly, no running away from that. With my rig I can segmentize critical data and not-so-critical download data. That's why I keep my movies and music on my non-RAID standalone SATA disk, but all on the same rig. If you go the all-in-one box like Buffalo or D-link, you're limited in that sense.

Different folks, different strokes i guess.

guys, considering your NAS is connected 24/7 to the internet what security precaution are you guys utilising? anybody using a separate built just for a IDS implementation?
Edit: I am a newbie in network security so be kind

Yeah but those are usually just a basic firewall where we usually depend on the built-in features (stateful packet inspection) or at the most iptables (or their equal).

I was reading this article regarding IDS hardware when the author said he realised how many probes he was getting on his system and this made him worried. I run comodo on my com and with it some sort of intrusion protection system. I too notice the high number of probes to my laptop. So arent you guys worried about the possible data compromise?

Article on IDS built here
BTW ozak, maybe I missed it, but what are the security features of QNAP and synology that you mentioned? I couldnt find a difinitive answer on their website

I went ahead and bought me a Synology DS212j today with a 2TB WD disk.

Followed the install instruction meticulously. It did the format & everything. DSAssistant reports 1 server found, IP status DHCP, status: CONNECTION FAILED. &%*@%.

It asked me to click ok at the end of the install process, I clicked ok and that's it. The popup disappeared. No more further prompts from the installer as their wiki said there would be. It just sits there, lights blinking. And it doesn't tell me how to get to the web UI or do anything at all.

Synology wiki doesn't tell me what to do after this either.

Major fail from Synology.

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I managed to get the connection up finally by powering off/on the NAS and accessing the web UI through trial and error. Am now creating the volume.

Hoping no further hiccups after following the screen instructions to the letter. I still think Synology should anticipate errors in the install process and have contingencies to guide users out gracefully rather than assume every step ends in success. It is after all a complex product.

Its either the hardware, software or the network. After I get my Synology unit up, I should be able to compare performance and find the culprit. I suspect it is WD's file management software. BTW, as far as I can tell the MBL does not provide any end-user control over how files are transferred. That's done by the firmware.

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

what NAS u using ?

this

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/11681/cp...525B.html#blank

lian li.. easier to get there are many more out there in the market but not sure if malaysia got sell

u can check out ebay also

I like the cloudstation feature in DSM 4.0.
Now I no need to worry about dropbox 2GB size limit.

The new feature that encourage me to upgrade from DSM 3 to DSM 4 is the cloud station feature.

There are few factors that determine the temp of the HDD, we can't judge it based on one's reading..  e.g has been a rainy day here since noon, my HDD cools down to below 38'c on the usual usage..  And while I have 2 media players fetching 1080p movies it goes up a bit again...   And reliability sometimes is pure luck, that's what I can draw after many years of using those HDDs.

errm there is new product now.
WD red. for NAS. 2tb RM375

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6157/western...rth-the-premium

pls recommend cheap NAS 2 bays for storage only.
I always keep my stuff in duplicates and it is very troublesome so i thought NAS might be a good solution.

Hi guys...

my boss company wish to setup a nas and he ask me to research for him... purpose of using nas is to store company web system, use as local web server and local office storage... my boss intention is to set user level to access certain folder (something like user permission i guess)...

can any sifu suggest wat kind of nas is suitable for such activities. fyi, my company is using unifibiz and if possible, can i set the nas with unifi fixed IP and access via internet??? thanks in advanced

my company has approx 15 - 20 pcs running from 3 different offices. definitely will do RAID 1 with around 750G - 1TB harddisk is sufficient enough. unfortunately my boss dun wan install OS coz it tends to easily corrupted... i did some research and D-Link DNS-320 looks promising to me... any idea on this device???
yes just 1 fixed IP... my boss need to have full time access on our web system... that's why we need to put this storage to the Internet... and we actually have a local server and its too old to upgrade any hard disk due to motherboard limitation. so my boss decide to use nas right now.
okay thanks will look around its products... any recommendation model?

btw, any D-Link DNS-320 user here???

thanks for every advice above... highly appreciated it...

I did some survey at lowyat last weekend... and i found Synology DS212j and QNAP TS-212 which met all my boss requirements... any pros n cons on this both and which would b highly recommended (in term for performance, package, warranty) lowyat shop recommend synology... and i viewed both demo at their home site, it seems qnap offer more functionality compared with synology... but seriously i cant understand every single setting from there...

Expanding final 3TB disk in DS1812+, it would take approx 2 days for expansion and parity check. I am very happy with the purchase so far.