# Best NAS?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-nas/265245>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [July 6, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-nas/265245 "2008-07-06T22:55:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![magic\_dot](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/magic_dot/32/791_2.png) [@magic\_dot](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/magic_dot)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-nas/265245/1 "2008-07-06T22:55:17Z")

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Hello,

were looking for a 1 to 2 terabyte Network Attached Storage device to make our backup and retrieval simple.

The reviews on Cnet and Amazon are contradictory and not much use.

What do you use and why?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-nas/265245/2 "2008-07-06T23:01:19Z")

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[QUOTE=magic\_dot;2354364]What do you use and why?[/QUOTE]

I took an old computer, installed Linux, attached an external disk to it, and put it in the closet. 😃

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**Author:** ![Templarian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/templarian/32/7152_2.png) [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-nas/265245/3 "2008-07-06T23:01:23Z")

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Just get one of the new mirror raids that western digital has… that way you won’t have to worry about anything.

[http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=466](http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=466)

Uhh… don’t know much about networking it though…

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**Author:** ![Theros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Theros](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Theros)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-nas/265245/4 "2008-07-07T13:35:31Z")

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Aren’t there already ready NAS systems out there? Sorta like that myBook system except built in networking or something.

Yeah, stuff like this: [http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=NAS+server&oe=UTF-8&cid=13104660706869957225](http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=NAS+server&oe=UTF-8&cid=13104660706869957225)

Though, Jeff’s suggestion probably is the easiest and cheapest.