Right now, I have two systems with usb disks for backup. Backup is not
automatic, but I use Synctoy, so I have to plan on initiating backups.
My thoughts were that a NAS raid would be it's own backup (I was
thinking Raid 5) and I could dispense with the USB disks and just put
everything on the RAID. And, well, there is no budget, I have to get
along with as cheap as possible. I've had one USB drive die on me after
a year and looking at the WD My Book Live Duo, there are as many 1's as
there are 5's. Doesn't look like a good bet. Is there something in a
NAS that doesn't cost you over $1000 by the time you add disks?
On 1/12/2013 3:39 PM, Julian Zottl wrote:
What's your budget like? Just file serving (through SMB/NFS) or are you
going to do any VM's and such?
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Julian
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Steve Tomporowski <[email protected]>wrote:
True, I'd have to pump in some money for extra memory and a raid card. My
Book Live doesn't give you RAID until you get to the DUO and that looks
like a WD fully fledged disaster. Even their responses seem to be trying
to put the blame on the customer. Besides, the Duo would not be
expandable. And not cheap. I'd have to weight out the price differences.
Getting a NAS is ideal, but they aren't cheap and you still have to buy
all the disks. Time for a spreadsheet....
Thanks...Steve
On 1/12/2013 2:30 PM, Christopher Fisk wrote:
The amount of power you will pay for to run an ancient PC like a P4 means
you'll quite quickly spend enough to buy yourself a network enabled HDD
like a WD My Book Live.
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Steve Tomporowski <[email protected]
wrote:
My sister just gave me her old computer. With the emphasis on old. It's
a
Compaq Presario, P4 2.6GHz, 512 memory. The motherboard is an Asus and
does have two sata ports on board. Is this thing worth turning into a
file
server (I'd want to put a raid card in it), or is this a give-away?
Also,
what software should I use? I'd want to run it headless and just power
everything down when not being accessed.
It came with one of the weirdest flat panel monitors I've ever dealt
with.
It's a 19" Planar, and it has the odd quirk, now that I remember back
to
when she got it, that it has to be plugged in for about 5 minutes before
you can turn it on.
Thanks...Steve
