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What NAS product or combination of NAS products would best suit the following home network requirements:

  • RAID 1 storage for important media, eg. photos, home video, etc with minimum capacity of 500GB.
  • RAID 0 storage for other media and backups, eg. TV recordings, DVD rips, music etc with minimum capacity of 2TB with the capacity for expansion.

The network is a Gigabit Ethernet link across several Windows PCs.

Out of interest what sort of real-world transfer speeds can I expect over 1Gb connection?

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QNAP NAS + USB drive backup

Personally I have a QNAP 209 with two 1TB drives, mirrored and then a seperate 1TB USB drive for a seperate backup (to protect against catastrophic failure of the QNAP). Good thing being that the QNAP has a one touch backup to USB drives so anytime I make a significant update to my video library I reconnect the USB drive and hit the backup button

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you're going about it the wrong way

Use RAID 1 for all of the data on the NAS and then burn all your valueable stuff (photos, wedding video etc) to optical of some description.

RAID != backup !!!!!

Personally I have a DNS-323, not bad really. Just make sure you update the firmware to whatever the latest version is before putting any data on it. Soem of the earlier releases did nasty things.

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>1Gb

Errr..I of course meant 2X1Tb, not a massive 2x1Gb drives.

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