Netgear ReadyNAS Duo
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I got money from my parents for Xmas and with it I splurged on a Network Backup storage solution - the Netgear ReadyNAS. Like all the Netgear products I have bought it was dead easy to set up and I was backing up over the wireless network in less than 30 minutes.
I am SO happy to finally get all the years and years of files (which I honestly probably don't need but don't want to delete), backed-up and off the many portable harddrives, CDs, DVDs and computers I have around the office and home.
The product only comes with one drive (I guess to keep the cost competitive) so because I wanted redundancym I bought another 500G Seagate drive and plugged that in as I was backing up onto the first drive. It started up and started duplicating immediately. The system also is configured to email me when there is a problem so if one of the drives dies I can shut the whole thing down until I get another drive.
Yes it is more expensive than converting one of my old computers into a linux backup option but so much easier! It also comes with a BitTorrent client, UPnP server, iTunes server (firefly) and Photo media server all installed and easily configurable through the web interface.
Another cool feature is that you can configure the front USB port to automatically download the information off it onto a specific network share. This means SD card comes out of the camera, into the USB reader and into the NAS. Within 5 minutes over 2G of photos were on the ReadyNAS and backed up. It is fast and so much easier than having it first on my computer then on the wife's Mac, then on backup somewhere and THEN off the SD card.
SOOOOOO much easier.
Recommend it to anyone!!
I got money from my parents for Xmas and with it I splurged on a Network Backup storage solution - the Netgear ReadyNAS. Like all the Netgear products I have bought it was dead easy to set up and I was backing up over the wireless network in less than 30 minutes.
I am SO happy to finally get all the years and years of files (which I honestly probably don't need but don't want to delete), backed-up and off the many portable harddrives, CDs, DVDs and computers I have around the office and home.
The product only comes with one drive (I guess to keep the cost competitive) so because I wanted redundancym I bought another 500G Seagate drive and plugged that in as I was backing up onto the first drive. It started up and started duplicating immediately. The system also is configured to email me when there is a problem so if one of the drives dies I can shut the whole thing down until I get another drive.
Yes it is more expensive than converting one of my old computers into a linux backup option but so much easier! It also comes with a BitTorrent client, UPnP server, iTunes server (firefly) and Photo media server all installed and easily configurable through the web interface.
Another cool feature is that you can configure the front USB port to automatically download the information off it onto a specific network share. This means SD card comes out of the camera, into the USB reader and into the NAS. Within 5 minutes over 2G of photos were on the ReadyNAS and backed up. It is fast and so much easier than having it first on my computer then on the wife's Mac, then on backup somewhere and THEN off the SD card.
SOOOOOO much easier.
Recommend it to anyone!!
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