I’m a storage junkie
October 8th, 2009
As most of my friends know, I’m a storage junkie. I’m addicted to storing every digital scrap I get. Currently my main home computer has about 2.5Tb; yeah, that’s terabytes with another 650Gb of storage shared on the network in a Network Attached Storage (NAS) unit. My wife’s computer has less but still I think it has about 250Gb storage.
My current NAS is 95% full and the lack of free space is slowing down access (I’m sure there are some badly fragmented files but I can’t defrag it until I free up more space).
I’m considering the following storage options:
- Western Digital (the drive mfg I tend to use) My Book World Edition II ($290)
This option will put about 2Tb of NAS on the network but has little upgradability other than attaching other external drives to it via USB 2.0. - D-Link Network Storage Enclosure ($90.85 + price of two hard drives)
This looks pretty good but again, it’s limited
They also have a slightly enhanced model, the 323. - HP 1Tb MediaSmart Server EX475 ($280 + price of two hard drives)
Now this is more like it but I’m leery of the Windows Home Server concept.
I’m still looking around and comparing options. It looks like any decent solution will cost me around $300 – 350. Let me know if you have any ideas I should look into.
