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Amancio Bouza

"After years of deleting files and buying more hard disks to store all my data I thought about buying a NAS. I think the need of a storage solution in

"After years of deleting files and buying more hard disks to store all my data I thought about buying a NAS. I think the need of a storage solution in private households has increased enormously after having internet flat rates, digital cams and so on. Buying new hard disks doesn’t solve the problem and burning data on CD or DVD is a rather bad idea because you have to test the burned disc if the data was burned correctly, you have to put them somewhere they don’t get scratched and after some years CD aren’t readable anymore. Most NAS (Network attached Storage) support RAID and are a good investment for archiving your data or creating a multimedia streaming server. After evaluating the market of NAS I found two interesting NAS products with RAID 5. One was the Tera Station from Buffalo and the other one was the Cube Station of Synology. The Tera Station needs a lot of power and is noisy and has a really old version of Samba. The Cube Station doesn’t look as cool as the Tera Station but you have great functionality like printing server, web server, database, photo album, streaming capability and lots more. Well, the total cost of the Cube Station without any hard disk equals to the total costs of the Tera Station with 1 TB already included.

I decided to buy 4 really silent hard disks of Samsung in combination with the Cube Station CS-406. The Cube Station-Series looks like an air conditioner, but its functionality is great. I feel really relaxed thinking on working for my diploma thesis. Saving the work on the NAS is quite safe. With this RAID server I don’t have to worry about a hard disk crash."

Kind regards,

Amancio Bouza

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