08-03-2006, 05:47 PM
My Firewire enclosures keep giving me more grief. Now one of them wont daisy chain, though it works fine off of both ports. And my G5 only has two FW400 ports. The one in the back I use for a HD, external burner and scanner. The one in the front I use for my video camera. (I'm thinking maybe another solution would be a FW PCI card.)
I've been looking at NAS, but they seem really expensive for what you get. I could build a cheap PC for less than that.
I would be using this for my nightly and weekly backup, as well as general storage. A RAID1 would be nice, but not required. USB might come in handy if I connected some external drives to it, but that's not required either. 10/100 would be nice, though gig e even nicer. The only common thing I see in NAS that isn't acceptable, is a 250GB limit.
What are the main advantages of NAS over a standard server? Any suggestions on which NAS to get? TIA
I've been looking at NAS, but they seem really expensive for what you get. I could build a cheap PC for less than that.
I would be using this for my nightly and weekly backup, as well as general storage. A RAID1 would be nice, but not required. USB might come in handy if I connected some external drives to it, but that's not required either. 10/100 would be nice, though gig e even nicer. The only common thing I see in NAS that isn't acceptable, is a 250GB limit.
What are the main advantages of NAS over a standard server? Any suggestions on which NAS to get? TIA