Thanks everyone for the responses. I need something fairly sharpish, so I'll go with the ready to rock box. Not that a self build is ruled out of my future..... > On 27 June 2020 at 19:03 Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Jun 27, 2020, at 3:14 AM, mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > > After the dead disk fiasco, I'm looking at network storage units. Drobo > > stuff seems to be either astronomically priced or unavailable here. > > > > Anyone had any experience of these? > > > > https://www.amazon.co.uk/Synology-DS420j-Bay-Desktop-Enclosure/dp/B083KG3PXN/ref=sr_1_8 > > I have a DS416. > > It was fairly easy to set up, and it does seem to work OK as second level > backup. > > It has a lot of features that I don’t need or use. I don’t know how it > compares with other NAS systems but it’s a lot slower than local storage and > seems a bit slower than other Samba connections with computers. I ran into > the interesting problem that storage partitions max out at 16T. I have no > major complaints, though my next similar system is likely going to be just > throwing a bunch of disks inside a Linux box. > > I’ve had it for a few years, and haven’t really had any serious trouble. It > doesn’t make be jump up with joy, but I have no major complaints. > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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