noladad
Occasional Visitor
Been lurking on Small Net Builder for a few weeks, but am pretty overwhelmed. I am thinking I want to get a NAS to use as a place from which to share media and to create a backup.
Here are my needs:
1) Create a reliable, consistent, automated backup for digital photos and important files. We have about 12,000 pics right now. Some of the files are quite large.
2) Create a centralized 'place' to store and share pictures, files, music and maybe some movies across our home network.
Here's our situation:
We live in a 3,700 sq. ft 3 story house. We have a pc connected to the modem and router located on the first floor. Router is an old Linksys G, but have an ASUS RT-N66U on it's way from Amazon.
We have a PS3, Macbook Air, a couple of iPhones, and an older iPad all regularly connected to the network. We often have visitors who may need to jump onto the network with their devices when visiting. We currently have trouble getting consistent reception for streaming on the 2nd and 3rd floors, on the side furthest from where the current router is positioned.
I've done a lot of reading, and am thinking I could meet our needs with a 2 drive NAS. Ideally, I would use one drive for storage and another as a backup. I don't think I want to use RAID, but rather just set them up as 'normal' drives. I would then hook a USB to the NAS and do a regular manual backup. Ideally, I would also use something (Crashplan?) to do a cloud backup and/or a backup to storage at my parent's home.
Will this work? If so, I've been lookoing at Synology based on the apparent ease of use and software (I am a real novice with networking). Is a Synology DS213j, 213, or 213+ fast enough to perform the tasks above and provide good results? I ask because I wonder about the 512 of RAM with no way to upgrade.
Thanks in advance,
Mark
Here are my needs:
1) Create a reliable, consistent, automated backup for digital photos and important files. We have about 12,000 pics right now. Some of the files are quite large.
2) Create a centralized 'place' to store and share pictures, files, music and maybe some movies across our home network.
Here's our situation:
We live in a 3,700 sq. ft 3 story house. We have a pc connected to the modem and router located on the first floor. Router is an old Linksys G, but have an ASUS RT-N66U on it's way from Amazon.
We have a PS3, Macbook Air, a couple of iPhones, and an older iPad all regularly connected to the network. We often have visitors who may need to jump onto the network with their devices when visiting. We currently have trouble getting consistent reception for streaming on the 2nd and 3rd floors, on the side furthest from where the current router is positioned.
I've done a lot of reading, and am thinking I could meet our needs with a 2 drive NAS. Ideally, I would use one drive for storage and another as a backup. I don't think I want to use RAID, but rather just set them up as 'normal' drives. I would then hook a USB to the NAS and do a regular manual backup. Ideally, I would also use something (Crashplan?) to do a cloud backup and/or a backup to storage at my parent's home.
Will this work? If so, I've been lookoing at Synology based on the apparent ease of use and software (I am a real novice with networking). Is a Synology DS213j, 213, or 213+ fast enough to perform the tasks above and provide good results? I ask because I wonder about the 512 of RAM with no way to upgrade.
Thanks in advance,
Mark