Hi, Thank you for your appreciation. You are very kind. 1 USD is worth about 1.25 CAD. However, US buyers usually have access to overall cheaper prices. You can look on TigerDirect.com or BestBuy.com as a starting point and see what's available there (TD had 272 units before I wrote this message). A good startup article could also be this one if you are not familiar with NAS devices: https://www. pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401086,00.asp, and then this: https://www.as ustor.com/service/nas_selector (at least to get the specs of what you need).
When I spoke of WD Red, it was in the context of getting a diskless unit for which you buy the amount of storage you need (for example, I bought 4x3TB that I run in RAID 5 which gives an effective 8TB of storage separate from the unit). I honestly would not know how to detect if a box has WD Reds in it or not, unless by opening it. For the longest while, I had a two disk (2x 2TB) Iomega unit that served me very well (an equivalent unit would probably be the WD - My Cloud EX2 Ultra 4TB 2-Bay External Network Storage or Synology - DiskStation 2-bay External Network Storage). As the number of users and usage grew, it became a bit under-powered so I had to upgrade, but I would recommend something like that for a single user. If you have a lot of media files and want to stream from your NAS, then go for a unit with a larger processor (quad-core with higher frequency) and ideally expandable memory. I hope this helps. Rémy Gauthier. Le mercredi 18 octobre 2017 à 16:11 -0400, charles meyer a écrit : > Hi Remy, > > Your posts are so appreciated. > > I'm in the USA so I'm not sure how 500-600 CAD$, 675-1000 CAD$ translates > into > American dollars? > > Is it easier to detect which NAS drives are Red > than trying to ascertain that with WD? > > Thank you so much, > > Charles. > > From: Remy Gauthier <remygauth...@yahoo.com> > To: charles meyer <reachmepl...@gmail.com>, "users@global.libreoffice.org" < > users@global.libreoffice.org> > Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:10:35 -0400 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] External Hard Drives - to save my LO and > other content > > Hi, > > Hard drives will die (even SSDs). While MTBF indicates long periods of > time, some will still experience drive failures with corresponding loss > of data (been there, done that). If you want to use something external > to store your data while still having very low probability of data > loss, I would recommend buying a NAS. Most of these units will have > multiple disks used to ensure the loss of one hard disk will not > negatively affect you. Get a two-bay unit operated in RAID 1 at a > minimum; this means you can loose one disk and keep on going until you > replace the faulty disk. Units with more bays will provide additional > levels of protection, but at a higher initial investment (ASUSTOR 2-bay > units go for about 500-600 CAD$, 675-1000 CAD$ for 4-bay plus hard > disks - my IT buddy would probably tell you to go for WD Red) > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
