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post #31 of 45
11/30/08 at 8:02pm
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It's mirrored on itself?

It's a single enclosure with two 500GB HDs in it--a WD My Book Pro II. Happy now?
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post #32 of 45
11/30/08 at 8:03pm
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It's a single enclosure with two 500GB HDs in it--a WD My Book Pro II. Happy now?
No, this saddens me greatly. I'm disappointed in you. Go to your room.
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post #33 of 45
11/30/08 at 8:04pm
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No, this saddens me greatly. I'm disappointed in you. Go to your room.



I asked for a better RAID system on page one, but nobody wants to help...
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post #34 of 45
11/30/08 at 8:06pm
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I asked for a better RAID system on page one, but nobody wants to help...
I find the large spray cans work just fine in conjunction with the little traps. How long you had this infestation? Edit: Sorry, bored. Maybe I'll watch a movie.
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post #35 of 45
11/30/08 at 10:03pm
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I asked for a better RAID system on page one, but nobody wants to help...

I don't really keep up with consumer NAS or i'd give you some suggestions. Try anandtech or tom's hardware for some reviews. With the cost of computers you could always build a really tiny one with an matx motherboard with on-board raid and as many sata drives as you want. And even if it doesn't have on-board raid, windows is capable of doing software raid, which for your purposes, would be perfectly adequate.
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post #36 of 45
11/30/08 at 10:26pm
Depends on how much work you want to do, grimslade. Would you rather build your own or do you want a 4-bay ReadyNAS? (I didn't see your post.)
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post #37 of 45
11/30/08 at 10:29pm
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Depends on how much work you want to do, grimslade. Would you rather build your own or do you want a 4-bay ReadyNAS?

(I didn't see your post.)

I guess I want plug-and-play. I can buy drives and I can drop them in, but my goal here is not to tinker--I'm happy to tinker, I guess, but I'm busy, just had a HD failure, and want something redundant that works.
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post #38 of 45
11/30/08 at 10:31pm
In that case, I'd recommend the ReadyNAS NV+ - they've just released a new 6-bay edition which I've not read much about.. I may end up going with one.
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post #39 of 45
11/30/08 at 10:39pm
I'm considering building an Exabyte/Petaflop computer although that may be a little ahead of the curve
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post #40 of 45
11/30/08 at 10:45pm
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In that case, I'd recommend the ReadyNAS NV+ - they've just released a new 6-bay edition which I've not read much about.. I may end up going with one.
Thanks, Kronik. I'll check it out. I hope it costs less than your speaker cables. EDIT: What about DROBO?
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post #41 of 45
11/30/08 at 10:56pm
Lots of people at HardOCP have/like the DROBO - same with the ReadyNAS. When I did a head-to-head (months ago), I settled on the ReadyNAS NV+. I hesitated in purchasing because I have no money as it is all being spent elsewhere (21k cables, here I COME!).
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post #42 of 45
11/30/08 at 11:50pm
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I just built an iSCSI SAN at work for a pretty reasonable amount of money. I could totally see some people starting to deploy them in the home soon. The thin-provisioning capabilities of apps like SANmelody are pretty damned cool, and a proper iSCSI SAN would enable multiple people to watch videos and record them to a central location without hitting disk bottlenecks. It's not really a priority for me right now, but I can see myself putting my entire dvd collection onto hard drives. I get sick of all the binders and cases lying around. Right now i have a lot of divx movies, but the quality is shit on anything big. With the cost of storage now, it's totally feasible to store an entire HD movie collection on an array of 1+TB drives. We will be seeing 2TB in a couple years, if not less. This is all pretty cool, but I don't have a holodeck yet, so regardless of the advances, I'm still kinda pissed.

Have an MD3000I and two storage networks here.
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post #43 of 45
12/1/08 at 4:55am
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It's a single enclosure with two 500GB HDs in it--a WD My Book Pro II. Happy now?

Happier.
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post #44 of 45
12/1/08 at 4:20pm
I have a server in my office across the street from my apartment with 8 terrabytes of movies and music. Wifi that stuff to my 2 small form factors at my place.

One of my computers in the apartment broke and I am thinking of replacing it with a dell studio hybrid. Waiting till after christmas since I figure the price will drop to close to $500. Plays blueray disc and has HDMI for connecting direct ot the TV.

I also ditched the amp for powered speakers connecteed to the TV. Home stero/theater is getting smaller and smaller. Thank God!
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post #45 of 45
12/1/08 at 6:32pm
I have a Lacie 1TB dual disk swap drive as a backup mirroring data on each. When I buy my house I plan to implement a regiment of backing up to DVD into a fireproof safe. In my computer I have two drives a 600GB and a 150GB with the later as my boot drive and the first as my main storage drive. I also have a 150GB Lacie external that is used solely for music. Ideally I'd have a server space offsite that was around 1TB or so that I could backup my backups to again. I'm always nervous about a fire or theft wiping my whole life away. I find the space I have a perfect amount so far for the web and print work I do as the files typically don't get over 100MB. If I was working with lots of video I'd probably add another 2TB or so of space.
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