Choosing the hard drives…

April 22, 2011

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Solving Life’s Storage Issues The next important buying decision after choosing the NAS, is what hard drives to purchase.  Hard drives are pretty standardized these days.  You basically have two sizes, laptop 2.5″ and desktop 3.5″  Fortunately the Synology DS411j can take both types, but best bang for the byte you’ll be looking at 3.5″ […]

Posted in: Hard Drives, Setup, Synology

Choosing a Synology NAS Model…

April 20, 2011

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choose verb /CHo͞oz/ chooses, 3rd person singular present; choosing, present participle; Pick out or select (someone or something) as being the best or most appropriate of two or more alternatives Decide on a course of action, typically after rejecting alternatives Now that I had settled on Synology as the brand of NAS that I wanted to put […]

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Deciding on which NAS works best with Macs…

April 14, 2011

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The decision to look into the best Macintosh Network Attached Storage device came after realizing that adding more hard drives to our Airport Extreme was not going to work.  I needed a reliable server appliance that could host all our music, movies, photos, home movies and still manage our Mac & PC backups with a high degree […]

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Airport Extreme lives up to it’s name…

April 8, 2011

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My Airport Extreme home network started to act like Chicago O’Hare on a bad weather day with TSA security alerts, except it was happening every day. Data traffic grinding to a halt queued up for Time Machine backups that were no longer going back in time, AirPlay stuttering of videos on our TV to the […]

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