Thứ Sáu, 19 tháng 8, 2011

Where Can I Find A Good Home NAS That I Can Afford?

By Lawrence Edwards


If you are tired of losing data when your external hard drive crashes, or merely desire to achieve access to your music, pics and video from any computer - PC or Mac - in your house over your network then a good home NAS is just what you need.

The general public now, though, do not have plenty of funds to spend on more computer equipment. So it is sensible to get a home NAS that not just trustworthy but economical too.

For most of us, that suggests finding a 2 drive NAS, which usually finishes up being a 2 drive bay network attached storage server. I make this distinction because it's possible to buy a 4 or more drive bay NAS device that only has 2 of the drive bays populated with hard drives.

Getting a home network storage solution with more bays gives you more enlargement space down the way, and we're all for that. But since those cost more our discourse here will target trustworthy and inexpensive 2 hard disk systems that only have 2 drive bays.

There are innumerable internet sites and magazines covering external storage that could be accessible over your network. The key, though, is that you get an actual network attached storage device and not just an external hard drive with network capability.

The difference is in protecting your information with RAID technology.

RAID1, AKA mirroring, protects your data if a hard drive fails. In of drive failure, you receive a message the drive has failed and you get it replaced before the other drive fails. Since each one of the 2 hard drives "mirror" the other, the unit keeps operating even if one drive fails.

Do not be confused and think RAID0, which many products offer, protects your information in any way. It does not.

Pick from a list of quality home NAS manufacturers choosing a NAS device that is highly rated by those customers who have acquired one. We've got a list at our web site together with other beneficial reviews.




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