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LeoNatan
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 Posted: Sat, 28th Apr 2012 13:22 Post subject: |
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I was looking for a similar solution as well, I have 14 HDDs, 6 always mounted, all filled with music or HD releases, and I have to constantly swap them everytime I want to access an unmounted drive, I tried purchasing a docking station, but for me, it is equally as unpractical, what I want is some method of having all my drives mounted up at the same time and accessible out of my main computer, without the recurrence to a network.
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Werelds
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Apr 2012 13:39 Post subject: |
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What you want is something like this 
The good NAS' all support hotswapping now and it's up to you to choose how many bays you want of course
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Apr 2012 13:49 Post subject: |
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It states 2-bay and the average price seems to be around $200 .. costly, but then; most NAS are. Wifey and I have been looking for a decent-but-cheap NAS for a while, I do believe that one fits the bill - thanks Paul! Now to see what the price is in ExpensoLand >_<
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Apr 2012 14:05 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | It states 2-bay and the average price seems to be around $200 .. costly, but then; most NAS are. Wifey and I have been looking for a decent-but-cheap NAS for a while, I do believe that one fits the bill - thanks Paul! Now to see what the price is in ExpensoLand >_< |
It would be cheaper to purchase a dozen docking stations and connect them to a USB hub, but then again, that would just be impractical, and it would occupy a large amount of physical space.
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Werelds
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Apr 2012 15:28 Post subject: |
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Well the benefit for most people with a NAS like the Synology (I picked that one because they've probably got the best price/performance/feature ratio) is that you can also use it as a download box. Stuff Sab, Sickbeard, CouchPotato etc on there and you're good to go
I've got an old PC that fulfills that task; difference is that a NAS would consume 1% of that PC's power 
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Werelds
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