need cheap nas solution?

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paradoxblue

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I would like a ready to go unit, not a home built one

SATA, 2-4 bays. and gigabit lan is a must

I have seen a few with Bittorrent support. which owuld be great.
um.. other than that.. something cheap is prefered. does not need to be hot swappable

ideas?

Thanks
 
Well, when I was shopping for a Nas Box last year, I tried a couple of the budget devices (the awful WD Mybook World comes to mind,) and found that you get what you pay for. Slow speed, random disconnects, and few features.

Go here, Small Net Builder and read up on some of the reviews and check out his charts.

After much research and several false starts, I picked the Hammer Storage Myshare 1 TB that I am running in Raid1 mode. I am very happy with it and spent about $400 delivered from Newegg.

It has had 1 hickup in 6 months. It dropped off line and needed a reboot. Other than that, it has just worked.

Don
 
I am also interested in getting a small affordable NAS that performs well esp with up to 8GB transfers and be able to stream movies and music.

My hardest part is finding good reviews on Buffalo or Thecus NAS's. I don't need the enclosure to come with drives just a good GUI and Gig Ethernet. The Thecus N3200 or the N4100+ look promising but the N4100 (without the "+") recieve just a average review on performance, but pretty good in all other categories by TomsHardware.com Review on N4100
 
I have the Thecus N5200. My assessment is that if you use it to do simple things, like act as a file server, it will do it's job admirably. That's really all I've used it for -- haven't been running media servers or applications on it.
 
the N5200 are a little more expensive it seems, and at most I wish to watch a movie from it (when there is no other traffic). I was hoping N4200 would preform as well but I am fine without having the extra options. Just need a very well preforming IP based NAS that will do RAID 5 (the cheaper two drive mirror setups don't preform as well as what I have seen)

This is just for my personal use. I have tons of photos I can't lose and don't want to use my DVD back ups to access my files and really want to have them access them at any time plus all other files. Just a little back round if needed ;P

Thanks for your help,
 
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