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Best Home Network NAS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everyone-wants-one dept.

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."

3 of 802 comments (clear)

  1. Old box laying around? by didde · · Score: 1, Redundant


    Usually people have older hardware laying around doing next to nothing. If this is the case for you, have a look at FreeNAS. It's really robust and works well for me.

    Internal drives are cheap these days.

  2. Re:RAID 0 by tomknight · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Mirrored RAID 0, WTF? And what has a motherboard got to so with soaftware RAID?

    Have I got the wrong end of the stick or are you talking nonsense?

    Okay, my answer:

    • Buy a cheapo PC
    • Put in two hard disks
    • Install FreeNAS (www.freenas.org)
    • Find some way of backing this data up....
    I don't know if this will come in at under $500, but you have a chance!
    --
    Oh arse
  3. Re:OpenFiler by markhahn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you can run MD on unpartitioned full disks, not just partitions.