LaCie 500GB Ethernet Disk Mini Gigabit NAS
 

Before I take the plunge and buy one, I thought I'd run this by you guys and girls...and Zing.

What are your comments on this NAS? Good VFM?

Anybody got one?

LaCie 500GB Ethernet Disk Mini Gigabit NAS From Dabs.com

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We have some of those at work, theyre pretty good but you can get better value for money elsewhere

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Think of it as this:

500Gb Hard Drive: £60.00
That means the Caddy with NAS is being charged at £73.24

Surely there are cheaper alternatives?

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The first question is: do you need one? if you want to share files, just enable sharing of the container folder then map directly to that ip.

That is not vfm at all, you can get barebones nas and get a 500 gb hard disk for less.

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I got one 2-3 weeks ago. Very fast and looks good. I have it 60m away, in the summer house, cat5 cable, 1gigabit ethernet. The setup was just plug in and it works. I do back-ups overnight.

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True - but this is an intelligent caddy!

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It's mainly for backup of my hard disk - I'm paranoid about lossing my photos / data etc.

So it's a good way to back them up away from the the PC and with the option to share them out.

OK - examples then please?

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I have a Buffalo Linkstation 250Gig which works a dream. The 500Gig version is £10 more expensive than the Lacie you linked to.

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I was going to buy a LinkStation Live untill I read a review on dabs.com.

That has put me off it!

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I see what you mean. I've not had any problems with my linkstation :shrug:

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XP or Vista?

Are you using any of the supplied software?

I'd like to use the auto-backup software that's shipped with it but it's compatibale - aparently.

Suppose I could always use Volume Shadow Copy Service!

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I've got two XP machines (one XP Pro, one Media Center) and one Mac OS X machine. I don't use the supplied software, and simply backup to it (manually) when I feel like it.

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The Lacie Nas has Linux as OS and the disk is in XFS format. I use windows XP backup.

I have not used the Lacie backup software.

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Cool...

Does XFS has any file limitations like it won't store >2GB files?

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No limitations. I just stored a 22GB file, and 44GB file on it

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I've been using a Bufallo linkstation for years. Just about to pull it apart and put a 500Gb HDD in it.
Only maintainance it has needed is some oil on the fan.
Some of the newer ones have louder fans. The linkstation is pretty quiet. The WD MyBook with an ethernet socket has had comments about how loud it can be with the fan on.
The FTP server function on it is great. I have all external FTP requests to my IP directed to the linkstation which then directs them to a specific folder on the linkstation. That can then either by anonymous or authenticated and read only or read write.
Never really worked with the printer functionality though.
It has my outlook.pst folders on it, my iTunes and i have not had any performance issues, though at the moment it is complaining about me backing up the content of the drive to its attached USB drive while also backing that up to a USB drive attached to the PC!