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Now that my better half has her own PC, I decided that it is probably a good idea to get a NAS unit so our music and other files can be shared between the two PC’s easily. The guy I work with bought a Netgear NV+ 1TB unit for something like £550. Whilst its fun to play with stuff like RAID 5, its a bit of an extreme solution for me (and him if I’m honest). However, it did mean he was getting rid of his Dlink NAS, so I bought it off of him. Its got space for 2 disks (both SATA) and can be set up as RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring) or JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks). It had a pair of 500GB Samsung drives included so I set it up as a RAID 1 volume of 500GB so I have data redundancy. I’ve also enabled the email option so that it will email me if a disk fails. Wicked cool huh? No? Just me then…

Anyway, as the NAS has a gigabit link, I bought a gigabit switch to connect the print server and PC’s to so they have full speed. So far I have to say I am very happy. I have yet set up Media Center again pointing a the NAS for the music but should imagine its going to take a while, as I have somewhere in the region of 6750 songs. But hey, thats what nighttime is for!