just copy and check lah, that would be the easiest

I can recommend NOT BUYING seagate blackarmor, but you prolly have read that already
well I finally got around to taking the damn thing upstairs and connect it straight to my pc's gigabit ethernet. so current setup is

Win 7 > 3Com 4 port gigabit > BlackPondan 400, all gigabit.

here's the transfer speed using filezilla.

GIGABIT

Seems you're not on Gigabit network? That speed is about right for 100Mbit line.

Your Synology NAS is overkill then because any decent NAS would be able to cope with that kind of workload and transfer.
Are you running full BDs from your NAS? Gigabit routers are cheap. For AV purposes, never use wireless.

I dont understand why some of you are quoting your internet speed for the slow transfers you are getting from your NAS... you are not transfering across the web. What is important is the quality of your internal network system.

For BD the max data rate specified is 54Mbit/s (40Mbit/s for AV streams). In theory any wireless N system should be sufficient, even a 100Mbit/s LAN router should be sufficient to stream BD. 3D BD is still limited to a max 64Mbit/s BTW... and that is a really rare occurrence that any movie needs the max data stream.

so look into your homeplug if it is still slow. I think as the few people here have indicated, homeplugs are slowwww.

What is the bitrate of the media you are trying to play and what media player are you using? I am currently using a Raspberry Pi and it has problem playing 10-ish GB files when streaming over wifi. But I think it is the lack of processing power of the ethernet/USB controller rather than wifi constrains.

Short answer is yes... 100% effective. The only problem is the issue of running the cables all over the place. If you have built in conduits, just run the cables.

syk, thanks for your input, just wondering is streaming movies easy for HD movies?? or those with codec?? got lag / etc??

Yes, for streaming of HD movie the bottleneck is the network.
Make sure you have Gigabit switch for that. (At least transfer rate of 20+ Mb)
I'd tried both Wifi & 100M switch, the result is not very satisfy for big HD movie (>10Gb file)

I am using cheapo gigabit switch from D-Link 5 port (Rm80) or you can choose TP-Link 5 port (rm60)
Worth a try before commit to high end switch which cost a bomb!

The high end switch might be more faster and stable, and also can support more concurrent connection without packet drop. For normal home user, I think cheap one will just do the job.

Speak about gigabit switch..go to sri computer..n try to buy aztech ns815 gigabit switch (5 port)..will cost around RM25..not sure if still available..just bought few weeks ago.

just got a synology, is there anyway for windows or mac pc to access the synology folders via windows exporer?? seems like the way to access it is via internet exporer and play from there

I am planning on going to Low Yat on Sunday to get a 4 bay NAS. I don't want to spend too much - not over RM1k as I already have another QNAP459 4-bay NAS as my main storage and also a QNAP-201 as a backup. This new NAS is just for storage of videos and photos so speed isn't really important as long as it has 100MBps network - Gigabit would be better of course.....

At the moment I am leaning towards the DLink DNS-345 at about RM850. But thought I would check if anyone knows of a better deal on this one or another 4 bay NAS that will be in stock in Low Yat on Sunday.

I have 3 x 3TB drives already and a 1TB drive - all taken out of a Windows 7 64 bit tower computer as it is too difficult to keep track of them in the tower. So I just need the bare enclosure......and assume that I won't just be able to plug in the drives - I guess I will have to format them differently before they can go in the NAS?

Thanks,

Dave

I would suggest you get Synology. I have installed 3 units, and so far, all the units works flawlessly in SME environment, using it as a file server & backup server.

Synology is reliable.

I had also installed 2 units of the Buffalo 2 bay one.... 1 was extremely problematic.... their recovery process also a little different, since they the boot sector needs to be stored on the Disks, while the Synology already have a boot ROM.

At the end of the day, it depends on Budget vs Reliability.... you decide....

Not so much when the NAS is running, but when a disk "do" fail, how is the recovery process like?

I get it for files storage and need RAID 1 or maybe RAID 10 as those files are very important

I guess NAS suit me since I no need any server feature, I believe it is more secure without server features 

Thanks for help, any recommended NAS brand or any more affordable Synology

Planning to move to cloud service but limited by network upload speed

Have to live with traditional solution first

guys i hope somebody could help me with this problem:

i have a desktop pc with 4 hard drives full of data
now the pc gone kaput and since i have a macbook now i don't need to use it anymore
i'm planning to get a NAS so that i can use all the hard drives that i have wirelessly with my macbook
if i insert those hard drives into the NAS, can i still use the data (the hard drives are formatted as NTFS using windows 7 that is my previous desktop setup) or will it be formatted and become a newly erased HDD?

how to backup the hdd, pc already kaput

Guys, what is the expected lifespan of a synology NAS?
My DS410 is almost 3 years old, time to upgrade before the hardware dies?