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kaiden in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago: (root)
A few months ago, I was looking to perform off-site backups for friends, and found that I could no longer do the "wholesale" backup I'd intended, as I was running out of space. After
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MrFood in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
Say for the average home consumer, who doesn't think too much about security or worry about losing data, but knows they should have backups. What are systems that are very affordable and
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kaiden in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
Certainly. I'm a fan of my own Synology device, the DS410, which has capacity to hold 4 disks, and has all of the features I mentioned in the root post. It's a few years old, and has
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conrad in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
Hi.  Aforementioned friend here.  I have a Synology DS411j.  I have three computers (a Windows 7 box, a Macbook Air, and a small netbook running Ubuntu) that all talk to my Synology
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MrFood in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
I've always kind wanted something akin to this, but through complacency due to lack of drive failures I have never made backups a priority. Its always on the edge of my mind though. I
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kaiden in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
I went with two of these: Western Digital 2TB WD Green SATA III Intellipower They have nice "low power" modes, and seem to be fairly reliable, and are listed among the compatible
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conrad in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
I'm running two Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB drives.  I haven't had any issues (yet).  They're also reasonably quiet.  My "server space" is located in the
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norwaygirl in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
I don't know much about any of these systems, but Costco does have some Western Digital products at decent prices. This is the one Travis and I were looking at, but they have some fancier
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kaiden in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
Oddly, the only one I'd consider from Costco's Western Digital line-up would be this guy, which while it can do the right RAID1 mirroring between disks, it's only available with a
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kaiden in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
Uh... stand by. New disks appear to have cratered the NAS device.
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kaiden in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
My sin appears to be pride. Rebuilding the NAS device from component disks and laptop backups. No data loss, but a good 8 hours until it's usable again. Can't speak as to what went wrong. System just
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conrad in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
Did you just drop the two new drives in and let it try to figure out how to copy everything over? Are you running DS 4.0 or 4.1?
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kaiden in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
Was at 4.0, now at 4.1 after reinstall.
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conrad in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
Let us hope the OS update fixed whatever nasty bug that was. I don't want to think about a NAS meltdown. Ever.
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kaiden in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
Also, successfully inserted and built new RAID array out of new drives alongside the old. ~20 minutes in became unresponsive.
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MrFood in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
Well damn, you work out the bugs and then I will later bask in the glory of your unfortunately gained knowledge. I'm a ways off from implementing any kind of NAS so I am confident that in
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kaiden in Indiscernible from Magic, about +13Y ago:
I'll certainly get back to you once it's back up and running how I want. I think my mistake was not upgrading the software on it before inserting the new disks, despite the compatibility
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Scrotor in Indiscernible from Magic, about +12Y ago:
Would you recommend something like this?
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kaiden in Indiscernible from Magic, about +12Y ago:
Not that model, no. It provides an alright feature set, but it doesn't provide disk redundancy (a RAID setup). However, some of their other
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Scrotor in Indiscernible from Magic, about +12Y ago:
Looks like you gotta pay premium for a NAS with RAID. Because the cheaper of those is out of stock, and the other one has a 3x price increase. Oi va.
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kaiden in Indiscernible from Magic, about +12Y ago:
(sigh) Yeah, that's true. A thought I had, while not an ideal implementation, is if you had an old desktop computer with extra hard drive bays, it wouldn't be terribly difficult to set
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kaiden in Indiscernible from Magic, about +12Y ago:
About a month and a half ago, the hard drive on my Macbook Pro started acting up. I'd been taking frequently backups, so I wasn't going to be losing anything, but it's still a pain to
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