Injury20
Established Member
Hi all,
After my previous post I'm going to go with a NAS. (thanks for the help)
So the question is now what type do I need?? I have read through pages of threads on NAS over the weekend but as i'm not that much of techie I've started this one with what I curently have and need, sorry for the size of the list
So here goes:
I have two laptops (1 x vista & 1 x XP) and a PC on XP, all are currently connected via wireless. PC can be hard wired if required.
My router is a 'Belkin wireless G modem router F5D7632G' (is this good enough?)
I need an NAS with at least a 1tb hard drive, but with the option to add to it when it gets full. my 500 gig is already full so to be able to just plug in additional hard drives will be needed
It would be useful to have a one click back up of some description on each of the pc's to make it simple
I'm not to worried about a mirrored drive with raid etc as i'm going to also use a company like this Online storage & online backup from Livedrive for an external back up (unless anybody has any suggestions on who else to use) being able to set to do an auto back up every night to the remote company will be good so i dont forget..
I will need to be able to connect remotely so the files can be accessed from work. Could do with some guidence on this i.e FTP options
I need to be able to connect a printer to the NAS and would like to be able to leave it downloading bit torrents etc when pc's are switched off
I want to use it for my iTune library, not to bothered about streaming music/video etc as long as i can sync my ipod's to it, but would be good for future proofing
I dont have a forune to spend i could really do with trying to keep this under 300 quid, i dont know if this will be possible or not with the above list
P.S. I know a little on change hard drive's in pc towers so with the right instruction I could use internal hard drives for the additional storage when needed..
Thanks in advance
Injury20
After my previous post I'm going to go with a NAS. (thanks for the help)
So the question is now what type do I need?? I have read through pages of threads on NAS over the weekend but as i'm not that much of techie I've started this one with what I curently have and need, sorry for the size of the list
So here goes:
I have two laptops (1 x vista & 1 x XP) and a PC on XP, all are currently connected via wireless. PC can be hard wired if required.
My router is a 'Belkin wireless G modem router F5D7632G' (is this good enough?)
I need an NAS with at least a 1tb hard drive, but with the option to add to it when it gets full. my 500 gig is already full so to be able to just plug in additional hard drives will be needed
It would be useful to have a one click back up of some description on each of the pc's to make it simple
I'm not to worried about a mirrored drive with raid etc as i'm going to also use a company like this Online storage & online backup from Livedrive for an external back up (unless anybody has any suggestions on who else to use) being able to set to do an auto back up every night to the remote company will be good so i dont forget..
I will need to be able to connect remotely so the files can be accessed from work. Could do with some guidence on this i.e FTP options
I need to be able to connect a printer to the NAS and would like to be able to leave it downloading bit torrents etc when pc's are switched off
I want to use it for my iTune library, not to bothered about streaming music/video etc as long as i can sync my ipod's to it, but would be good for future proofing
I dont have a forune to spend i could really do with trying to keep this under 300 quid, i dont know if this will be possible or not with the above list
P.S. I know a little on change hard drive's in pc towers so with the right instruction I could use internal hard drives for the additional storage when needed..
Thanks in advance
Injury20