Hi all,
I've been running a HP ex470 since purchase so over 4 years now. It's been running fine until late, the nic card is on the fritz, and one of the 1TB hdd's is acting up and causing the entire WHS console to act slow or be inaccessible.
I've been looking around on the web to see what's available, everything's nice and new, but unproven, making it difficult to jump ship.
I've been choosing between the Q-NAP TS-469l, Asustor AS-604T and Synology DS412+, neither are windows based.
I have a few Mac's and a few pc's all that need to be backed up regularly.
My main concern after going through the data recovery process (taking the HDD's out of the mediasmart server and using esata to gain access on another PC) is if that can be done if on of the three unit's I'm looking at decides to have a major meltdown. Can you simply take one drive out or many and copy your files off of it in the event the unit fails?
That's the problem I'm seeing, many of the reviews, all of them in fact, don't cover how one would actually get their files off one of these units, it's all based on a cut and dry approach that the unit will never fail, harddrives will never crash and you can always use the software that comes with the unit. In the real world that isn't the case, and what I'd like to do is try to figure that out before making an investment.