NAS Basics (Data Protection, Performance, Configuration and more)

Mub6

EXACTLY as i needed,

thanks a zillion

trickyb1967

New into this and found your article very interesting, thanks for taking the time.

lhawk

Thanks for the article, just bought a NAS case for £100 and 2x 2TB Hard Disks for £60 each. I am also looking at creating a NAS server from old bits of computers to do a backup of the NAS drive.

chukwe

I've a Qnap T219P  Nas server and I'm connecting it to my laptop with the network cable provided.

But I'll like to know whether the network cable connection is faster or slower than USB connection?

Zarch

I'd start a new post with your question in the main forum rather than clutter up this thread.

Smurfin

IIRC, via the network is much faster - P2P is significantly slower.  The clue is in "Network Attached Storage"

Zarch

I think you'd be better off starting a new thread in the main forum and so keep this FAQ clutter free.

You've more chance of getting replies with your own thread.

anorax25

Excellent article so thanks again to the OP.

I have just ordered a QNAP-419 thingy with 4 x 2TB drives.

I would like to use Time Machine to backup to one drive and a mirror and use the other two for data storage ( movies & music ) with the use of a USB drive for the occasional TM failsafe.

Am I right in choosing RAID5?

I would like to reserve 2 drives for just the data.

Thanks in advance.

Col.

HMHB

Are there any 2 bay NAS drives which will allow you to set up the drives as separate drives like you would in a PC? I don't want to use RAID and don't want to use JBOD either.

Smurfin

Bit of a contradiction there John - if you want separate drives then by design that's JBOD.  Anyone buying a NAS who wants separate drives is better off just buying separate external HDDs in caddies imho.