Thanks. BTW: At Algorithmics, we used the WD MyBook as our backup device. It was a BusyBox system and quite slow. I had it set up as an rsnapshot engine. Power fails could cause some problems. We also backed up to our NYC office. Not sure what I will do yet.
BTW: One advantage of buying disks separately is to mitigate the multiple simultaneous failure issue by avoiding 2 drives with the same lot #. I have also heard good things about the HP microserver. On 03/19/2016 11:28 AM, Rich Pieri wrote: > On 3/19/2016 10:28 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> I'm looking to replace my current desktop system with a local cloud >> storage. I certainly can use my old desktop system, but it's power usage >> is quite high. My thinking right now is to buy one of the commercial >> systems, such as WD My Cloud, Synology, QNAP, Drobo. > The Synology and QNAP appliances are good but their disks are overpriced > so buy them separately. I have no experience with WD's appliances but > they do have a good rep on the list. > > If you want something more versatile -- a real server, not an appliance > -- then I highly recommend HP's microserver line. Quiet, unobtrusive, > reliable, reasonably priced. Again, buy disks separately. > -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:B7F14F2F PGP Key fingerprint: D937 A424 4836 E052 2E1B 8DC6 24D7 000F B7F1 4F2F _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
