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Originally Posted by mikel51
(Post 10247798)
I use an Infrant Ready NAS. It holds up to 4 drives. You can start with one and add additional drives as necesary. I started with 2 500 gig drives a few years ago, and now have 4 (2 gigs of drives, but 1.5 gig of storage). One of their options, RaidX is kind of cool. Its a modified Raid 5 that allows you to continue to add or replace drives as hot swaps and continually increase storage space. If I was to start now, I would populate with 1 gig drives. 1 drive stores the redundant data, so if you have 4 drives, you have the capacity of 3 drives and the 4th drive is redundant and provides protection against one of the drives failing.
from any proprietary raid solutions. My main concern is: "what if the hardware fails and I am unable to port the same drives on a new device" And if I must for any reason, I keep some spares(controllers) on hand. I also stay away from using a raid 5(or similar) on IDE/ATA/SATA drives. In my experience the performance has been terrible and hot-swap is not as painless compared to SCSI/PATA drives setup. But I suppose for a low I/O setup, you may not feel the pain. My setup at home is not so I/O intensive so I use a simple "mirror" based setup. And rsync based backup.. |
Originally Posted by mjpflyer
(Post 10239568)
Iomega StorCenter is good. Better choices: Netgear's ReadyNAS line (Duo or NV+). Or, a lesser known brand, Synology, or Buffalo. I think all of these allow some level of remote access...
He wrote: 'If your network supports VPN access, yes, it will accommodate remote backups.' I don't know what this means...How do I know if my network supports this? Is this going to be tough to set up? I'm okay with computers but know little about networking... Edited to add: I found this on the readynas.com website: If you’re looking to centralize your backups, the ReadyNAS also has a built-in web-based Frontview Backup Manager. From there, you have the option of scheduling backups to or from the ReadyNAS shares. You can opt to backup from a remote site over CIFS, NFS, FTP, HTTP, or RSYNC protocols, or vice versa — backup the ReadyNAS share to a remote site over CIFS, NFS, FTP, or RSYNC. You can even perform backups to an attached USB storage device. The flexibility allows the ReadyNAS to be used to backup all the computers on the network or backup a ReadyNAS to another ReadyNAS on a fixed schedule. This sounds pretty clear to me but as I said, I'm not sure what the above reply about VPN access means. |
Originally Posted by Fliar
(Post 10248955)
I'm now looking at the Readynas Duo and emailed the vendor to ask if it supports backups through remote access.
He wrote: 'If your network supports VPN access, yes, it will accommodate remote backups.' I don't know what this means...How do I know if my network supports this? Is this going to be tough to set up? I'm okay with computers but know little about networking. If you have to buy a VPN router ($80 and up) and a NAS, an alternative would be to put a second drive or USB external drive on the home PC and spring for Logmein at $69/year. It's considerably easier to set up and you have free tech support. The hardware is also cheaper than the VPN-NAS solution. |
Thanks, wdwright, for your very helpful reply!
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Originally Posted by ScottC
(Post 10239615)
It didn't help that they were stuck with a device that had a known data loss bug for 7 months. I was an early adopter of the WHS concept, but after losing backups and vital files for the third time, I put the piece of crap up on Ebay.
So far, the best solution I can find is a good old XP machine. |
I have 24 2.5" SAS drive units in a supermicro chassis and that is just one of them :)
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I have a Linksys NSLU2 with 2 300GB drives. It is a little slower than I would like but it is fast enough for 2 simultaneous video streams. I need to unslug it. For backup I use Retrospect running in the wee hours daily doing an incremental backup onto a DAT autoloader.
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I use a Linksys RV042 router to gain VPN access to my home network, and currently use a Linksys NSLU2 "network storage hub". I've also tried a Vantec NAS enclosure and the Belkin "network USB hub". I haven't really been pleased with the performance on any of them. VPN connection is plenty fast if I wanted to leave a PC on sucking juice.
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