The Patriot Valkyrie Dual Bay NAS device comes at a standout discount to its competitors. It’s an attractive, compact device with a well rounded range of capabilities. The Patriot Valkyrie will act as a central, network attached storage server, digital media hub and an FTP server for remote access. There are twin 3.5 inch HDD bays supporting SATA II HDD up to 4TB which only need to be pushed into place.
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The Patriot Valkyrie has support for RAID 0 and 1 as well as JBOD. Notable features are UPnP media server, iTunes server, user/group management, backup scheduling, standalone P2P Network downloading, Active Directory Services (ADS), and Dynamic DNS support. There is a USB at the back of the device to leave a network printer attached and another at the front for inserting storage devices to be backed up. Backing up a USB storage device is dead simple with the contents being automatically copied onto the NAS internal storage at the touch of a button. A similar facility for camera SD cards would be excellent.
The Patriot Valkyrie Web interface (multi-lingual) has a good range of setup options but, is not as user friendly as it could be. The manual for the device suffers a similar malady. For those familiar with such a device these concerns shouldn’t be a problem. The support forum at the website seemed to suffer from a lack of input from company representatives. Strangely there is a one year US warranty (average term for this device type) but, a two year European warranty.
Specification Valkyrie Dual-Bay NAS server
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