I think this is the right strategy, especially with multiple PCs. I use Synology but I hear QNAP is good too.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of OK > Don via Mercedes > > So I ended up buying a QNAP NAS box - TS-328 - and filling it with three 4TB > WD Red disks. That gets me 7.2TB with RAID 5. I then got a WD Mybook 8TB > USB external drive to backup the NAS (done with one push of a button > whenever you want). This should hold me for awhile. > The three 4TB disks were less than two 8TB disks, and I really like RAID 5 so > - > that's what I did. > When I copied my photos directory to the NAS, it counted 465,000 files at > 564GB. All total, I've put 1.27TB on the NAS from the two PCs. > Here's hoping that the old PC keeps on ticking - but at least the data will be > safe (knocking on wood). > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
