Looking for NAS with Raid 1 capability

[UK Business Directory]

Hi

I am looking for a decent NAS storage device with two bays allowing for RAID 1 disk mirroring.

Anyone currently using one which they would recommend?

Thanks

 

[Kixo]

Pretty much most of them do now so it depends on you're budget and user needs. How many people need it and what type of data will it be for? Western digital, buffalo and qnap are all great... To be fair most of them are now.

 

[KM-Tiger]

Do you want a barebones device to install your own OS?

If so the HP Microservers are good quality and good VFM.

 

[Jim2k]

Synology are by far the best range of NAS' we have used. Excellent hardware and a great OS. If you wanted to tinker then you could get a HP Microserver and have a play with XPenology. Google is your friend.

 

[UK Business Directory]

Hi Jim2k

Yes, Synology seems to be the best one out there according to the research I carried out. Will be ordering one of these.

Thanks all

 

[UK Business Directory]

Do you want a barebones device to install your own OS?

If so the HP Microservers are good quality and good VFM.

I have two of the HP micro servers running a test VMWare environment at home. Great value servers.

 

[Jim2k]

Hi Jim2k

Yes, Synology seems to be the best one out there according to the research I carried out. Will be ordering one of these.

Thanks all

You won't regret that. Any issues, just drop me a line.

 

[Cromulent]

Hi Jim2k

Yes, Synology seems to be the best one out there according to the research I carried out. Will be ordering one of these.

Thanks all

Good choice. I have a Synology NAS with 2x 4TB hard drives running in RAID 1. It has worked perfectly since the day I got it and you can access the contents from Mac OS X, Windows and Linux all very easily. Great device for backing up from multiple operating systems.

 

[JMack986]

Another vote for the Synology here. I have had the 712+, 713+ and recently upgraded to the DS1513+. Give me a shout if you need a hand with any of the configuration.

Rather than using RAID 1 consider the Synology hybrid RAID. It shares similar qualities to a RAID 1 but has additional storage capacity and slightly increased read/write speeds.

 

[Chris Bennett]

Synology is good, however I have had bad experience with them. Personally I find QNAP better in build quality and I personally think they're easier to use and setup.

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Is mirroring the best way to record data as garbage in garbage out

If you used something Like Acronis to make a backup instead at say one hour updates from one disk to the other, you may loose a hour's data but it's secure. Where as if say you screw up your e-commerce software the mirrored copy is also buggered up and if you have no other backup than you are screwed, but by using backup rather than mirror yo have the advantage of recovery