What's a good cheap NAS?

[techyguy717]

I'm looking for a good cheap NAS for around $150.

- Consumer Grade
- Easy to Setup
- Should have Hard Drive or cheap enough to buy hard drive and stay within price range.
- Are ALL WD and Seagate solutions are rated bad?
- Rated good quality.
- Basic Network Backup is all I need

 

[Aescaepulus]

Dell does good NAS solutions, but I wouldn't know about the $150.00 part!

 

[Saddle]

Unraid works well for me.

 

[gikstar]

Unfortunately NAS units are mostly crap unless you build it yourself or spend gobs of money.
Here are the items found on a Newegg search - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=RATING&PageSize=20

The listing is sorted by "Top Sellers" then "Best Rating". I don't see anything worthwhile in your price range.

Here is a thread from the Angry Geek on how to build your own NAS that you should find useful if you haven't seen it before: http://www.technibble.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36561&highlight=network+storage

You may want to build something and lease it to your client.

 

[16k_zx81]

HP N40L Microserver

Can be picked up for about $200

 

[Martyn]

HP N40L Microserver

Can be picked up for about $200

Just had one delivered, nice unit.

 

[KompuKare]

Just had one delivered, nice unit.

(Sorry OP to derail your thread.)

There are tons of discussion pages / wikis on those Microservers since HP have been running that cashback thing for 18+ months now. One thing which came up was this guy on Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R18FCCMX9NQY48/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R18FCCMX9NQY48) saying HP were running a bait and switch because the unit he got was a lot louder than 22dB and used more power than in the reviews.

The N36L I had was a bit louder (30dB I think using Android deciBel) but the wattage was okay. If you've got a watt-o-meter I'd be sort of interested in what power yours is pulling.

 

[techyguy717]

I'm looking for a good cheap NAS for around $150.

- Consumer Grade
- Easy to Setup

Note: This is to be recommended for Home users that can't / wont backup computers.

I don't understand why Ethernet Hard Drives are:
a) Too expensive or
b) WD and Seagate that fail in a year

 

[Knightsman]

Good for consumers
http://www.amazon.com/Iomega-Media-...TF8&qid=1339984248&sr=1-2&keywords=iomega+nas

Good for small business
http://www.amazon.com/Iomega-StorCe...TF8&qid=1339984248&sr=1-1&keywords=iomega+nas

I have used both and they work great, have ordered about 2 twin hds and 4 singles.

 

[DanF]

Have you checked Buffalo?

 

[lcoughey]

I'm looking for a good cheap NAS for around $150.

- Consumer Grade
- Easy to Setup

Note: This is to be recommended for Home users that can't / wont backup computers.

I don't understand why Ethernet Hard Drives are:
a) Too expensive or
b) WD and Seagate that fail in a year

If you don't understand why a NAS is so expensive, then build one yourself. All you need is a case, power supply, system board, network adapter, CPU, RAM, hard drive and an OS. You should be able to put it together for less than $150 and guarantee that it won't fail within 3 years, right?

Let's get real. The reason that you have "b" is because they are too cheap.

 

[itech88]

For a Small Business i would check out Synology, for home the Iomega ix2 is not to bad, slow write times though.

 

[coolnezz]

Lots from Iomega...


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=iomega+nas&x=0&y=0