On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:00 AM Wols Lists <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 30/09/21 22:50, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I'm in the study phase on some sort of NAS backup system for my home. > > I'll be building (or buying) a new desktop/server machine in the next > > few months - my i980 machine doesn't have the right instruction set for > > running Tensorflow anymore - so I want to figure out backups before I > > put together the new machine. > > Okay, your NAS box is going to be shut down most of the time? Why not > re-purpose your old box as the NAS? If it was running a lot, I'd be > concerned about the power consumption,but here it sounds okay.
The number 1 reason would be I want the backup system running _before_ I decommission this old box. I'd like to spend some time using the old box, running backups, learning the software, etc, before the new machine comes online. Still it's a possibility. I could live on my old laptop for a few months, take the current server machine, decommission, rebuild it, bring up the NAS/backup solution/whatever it is. It's possible. This old machine is now about 10 years old. It's a big Cooler Master case, 6 or 8 removable drive bays, heavy. It collects dust and sometimes the fans are quite noisy. If I was going this direction I think I'd have to tear the whole thing down, redo the case fans at least. If I did all that then I think I'd use it for the new machine, but you do have a point. > > > > I have about $400 credit at NewEgg and would like to keep my additional > > costs on the NAS down to about $100-$200. I expect the new machine to > > probably be 4TB RAID but it would be quite a while before that gets > > filled up. > > If that includes buying new drives, you're pushing your luck here ... a > new "suitable for raid" 4TB drive will probably blow that budget in one hit! Currently my thinking about hardware was pretty modest: https://www.newegg.com/synology-ds220/p/N82E16822108743 and a couple of 4TB drives at $100+ would be in the $500-$500 range. I know NOTHING about boxes like that in terms of OS or maintaining them. Will respond to the rest of the post when I get back from lunch in Phoenix. 2 hour drive to meet up with the bass player in one of my college progressive rock bands. (It's tough being in your 60's...) Thanks much, Mark
