Nas question

[stevetiler]

I have a 2 TB My Book Nas which is getting close to being full - would it be best to buy a bigger one or can the storage be incresed by plugging another drive into it?
Thanks

 

[hashcake]

You can use either an external USB hard drive or a NAS.

 

[neil_g]

I have a 2 TB My Book Nas which is getting close to being full - would it be best to buy a bigger one or can the storage be incresed by plugging another drive into it?
Thanks

Upgrading to a 4 Bay unit, with a pair of 4tb drives leaving room for future expansion.

Depends on your budget really.

 

[stevetiler]

Depends on your budget really.

What sort of money are we talking Neil?

 

[Mike Savage]

Can certainly recommend Synology units Have several and excellent units. Did have one issue with one unit and customer service and support was excellent

 

[srhmoto]

What sort of money are we talking Neil?

Two bay Synology NAS with 2xWD red 4TB drives configured to raid 1 is around £350 from CCLonline.

 

[neil_g]

4 Bay TS-431P2-1G without disks can be had for 280 (box website), unfortunately probably the same again for a pair of 4tb wd.

 

[broc]

I came across this recently, one for those who like to tinker & do their own thing. It will run OpenMediaVault (OMV) NAS software with a single 3.5" HDD.

https://www.odroid.co.uk/ODROID-HC2

They also make a version that uses a 2.5" HDD (or SSD). At around £65 per unit plus the cost of HDD storage it's quite an interesting bit of kit. Could be useful if you have an old HDD lying round too.

 

[Mr Perceptive]

Synology all the way....they have a useful NAS configurator on their site, and have a RAID like system that supports different size drives (SHR) very useful if in the future you need to replace a drive.

Also they have great software support, with a variety of plug ins/apps to undertake automatic backup/cloud access etc

 

[Mr Bump]

whatever you do matey make sure you have a way of backing it up properly and effectively.