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Not sure if this is a photo question????

Any good recommendations for 1 or 2 TB storage drives. I'd also like to connect it to my router or wireless. Any recommendations on central access hard drives?
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Just bought a Drobo FS- I'm really liking it. $$$ But its working great, sharing everything on my network and the drives are not only hot swappable but you can slap in any Sata drive you have.
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I just started using buffalo cloudstor, greatest nas for the price I have yet found, more like a mini server that you can access anywhere in the world... my customers love it too, I've sold 4 of them this week :)

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Netgear ReadyNAS is cheap and awesome (Thank you Ben @ DiveXtras for the tip). The specific product is “ReadyNAS NV+”Here is a good basic overview from the ReadyNAS community site.
Here's a youtube review. It demonstrates some cool features like USB one-button backup and hot-swapping drives.

Local Backups are dead simple. Using the web interface, point the NAS at a network share and set a backup schedule. Done.
If you buy 2 of these you can mirror them. Effortlessly. On your LAN or even across the Internet.
ReadyNAS Replicate information page. Youtube video demonstrating ReadyNAS Replicate.

Pricing: Cheap (for what you get). For example, the 2TB model (1TB effective storage) is under $500. As you can see here, there are plenty of places to buy this from.
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2TB Cloudstor is only $239 :angelblue:

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4TB of RAIDed storage with Linux (SAMBA connected) on cheapish hardware $350ish
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