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Best Home Network NAS
jammerjam writes "My WD 120GB drive got its MBR scrambled so it no longer mounts in my W*ndoze box (I can recover the data so I know that's intact). But now that's made me realize I need to implement my data backup plan. Scouring the Internet I can't find a reliable resource for home NAS solutions. For every positive review I can find a negative that refutes it. My first choice from what I found starts at $1200...I've got $500. Anyone have a suggestion? I'm not looking for enterprise-level storage here — but I do want reliability."
You must be new around here, right?
Go to office Depot or Staples or whatever the local office supply store is, buy out their entire stock of paper and number 2 pencils. Proceed to copy down bit for bit the content from your hard drive. If you write really small, you might be able to fit it in under $500 worth of supplies. For even greater redundancy, you can use clay and chisels, but thats just too time consuming for the average user.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Buy the OS. Next you'll be telling me to obey the speed limit, stop borrowing books from the bookstore, and keep my hands off small children.
Either that or I was a beta-tester for Windows Home Server, during which it saved my bacon when I accidentally blew away my Quicken data files.
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If your maiden aunt asked you what a good cheap commuter car would be, you'd recommend a Porche, wouldn't you?
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pshh, 1, 0, computers barely know the difference.
"software raid chip"
You really don't understand this, do you?
The title and summary do not explain what NAS is. Nor have the comments so far.
Of course, any geek worth his/her salt must know what NAS is. Since it must be a very common term for people to use it without explanation, I looked it up on Wikipedia. Now I no longer need to turn in my geek card, because I know that NAS is a 34-year-old American rap musician. It would surely be awesome to invite him home to perform over the network, thus solving problems of scrambled hard disks with the Best Home Network Nas.
Of course, NAS might stand for any number of other things including Network-Attached Storage, Network Access Server, Non-Access Stratum, Network Audio System, or of course that shining epitome of disk failure prevention, the New American Standard bible.
Anyway, I'm glad I'm done scratching my head over this, because I'm developing a bald spot.
404555974007725459910684486621289147856453481154 in hex is "You sank my Battleship?"
[GPG key in journal]
Great! Win-modems for drives!
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Depends. You can pick up a sound but scruffy Porsche 924 for a couple of hundred quid. Sure, it's not the hottest, newest thing out, but if it says Porsche on the back and it goes and stops, then you're onto a winner.
No Gigabit, No wireless, no sata, only usb (cabling hassle). Lame.
Bits are cheap and easy to get? You have obviously never owned a porsche.
I know parts for European cars are a little more expensive in the US, but a Porsche 924 is pretty much just a mixture of Golf and Passat bits, with an engine worryingly similar to the LT-series vans. Bits really are cheap, as long as you're not looking for a Porsche sticker on the box. Those AP brake pads are just the same. You're paying a lot for a sticky label...