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Been looking around at getting some form of home SAN solution, mainly because we've got 3 machines in regular use in this house (my desktop, laptop and the general house PC).

I've been looking at the following:

Netgear SC-101
Pros - 2 drive slots, could use up some old IDE drives I have lying about. RAID.
cons - Custom driver needed to connect to the box. No extra features. No drive included

Icybox NAS2000-B
Pros - Small, low power, straightforwards.
Cons - Expensive for such a basic unit. Single drive limit.

Qnap TS-101
Pros - Full features, RAID, bittorrent downloads, basic web server with PHP and SQLite
Cons - Moderate reviews, expensive, no drives.

Synology DS-106E
Pros - Full features, bittorrent downloads, complete web server with PHP and MySQL, Media Server
Cons - Expensive, no drives, BT support supposedly a bit dodgy, no raid



I'm leaning towards the last one. It's a sweet piece of kit and I can bundle it with a 320Gb drive for ~£225

Anyone had any experience with home NAS setups, or any of these?

No-one here has one, do they?

Sorry mang, my media center is my NAS..

the Qnap looks to be ther beter one there though.

I'm favouring the Synology over the Qnap one because the Qnap unit lacks MySQL. Aside from that though the Qnap one does have a raid option...

SAN? Indoor plumbing is nice too.

Yeah I spotted it after I typed it out. I've built and managed SAN and NAS solutions in work before now, so i know the difference. Yet I never seem to consider it when I'm writing =/

riddla wrote:check out slashdot, they had an article today on a new ASUS router that has a built-in 160GB drive and a native torrent client. I'm tempted since not having to leave on the PC would mean a mint in power savings.

http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewto ... light=asus

=)