Acer Aspire Easystore 2TB NAS drive
I’ve added to my toy collection, I’ve bought (as the title would suggest) a new NAS Drive.
I’ve has for the pass couple of years a 500Gb Western Digital MyBookWorld, which as ….well ok, well, slow, unstable, and over heats all the time.
I had quite a manual process to back this up too, I had to keep a machine on all the time, to run a scheduled task, to sync all the contents on the NAS drive to an external 500Gb hard drive, this was effective, however kind of overkill for a simple backup solution.
btw, the reason I’m so paranoid about backup, is a new firmware came out for the NAS drive, so I thought “OOOO, possible speed increase”, so upgraded, and it fell over Grrrrrr !, you can only imagine the paid and suffering I went though to a retrieve the content from the drive, the rebuild the linux partitions….not something I really want go through again.
Anyway, back to the Acer NAS drive, this drive is quick !, and I mean really quick !! (ok, getting around 18Mb /sec transfer speed, so about 3 times faster that the MyBookWorld)
It’s got an Itunes and Media server which supports Vob files (a god send for me streaming HD content to my PS3.
Currently running in Raid 5 (as raid 10 (0+1) isn’t available, so getting high read speeds, ok’ish write speeds, and 1.5TB of parity backup storage 
It does come with Wireless access too, however this is switched off as it’s connected to my Gigabit network.
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now that look pretty good
what other inputs as it got ? also what the maximum storage ?
You can get upto 3TB, however this is just the 2TB, one, in Raid 5, I’m getting around 1.5TB with the other half TB being used for Parity information
are you sure everything is still running fine? Other forums (and myself) report that after some time, the browser admin access does not show all files/folders on your NAS so you can’t give access rights by folder. This seems to happen as you start to use the disc more heavily and add more directories…. The software issues stop you from using the box eventually (firmware).
So far, so good. The first thing I did was update to the latest firmware (before adding any content).
I use the drive alot (use as my main storage), run all media, websites, large PSD and have not currently seen any problems.
The drive is currently only a 3rd full, and only has 7 shared folder as the moment, but currently only had for a week, so still in the early day.
I’ll report back if I start experiencing any of the problems you’ve reported.