Storage: Best NAS
Best NAS
by kpldd - 10/15/07 8:13 AMBeen looking at HP's MV2020, Netgear ReadyNAS, and Iomega StorCenter. I would entertain other options as well. Things that are important to me are: data security (redundancy, we had a HDD fail and lost lots of pictures of first baby), speed, and media streaming. Any thoughts?
You brought up the key issue. BACKUP!!!
by R. Proffitt
- 10/15/07 11:16 AM
In reply to: Best NAS by kpldd
No matter which system you choose if you don't follow the old rules about backup you get to (re) learn why they came up with that.
Too many people today use such systems as STORAGE and forget about the all important second copy and backups.
I like that HP but for me a simple low wattage LINUX BOX is doing my NAS.
Bob
Not as easy as RAID?
by kpldd - 10/15/07 12:27 PM In reply to: You brought up the key issue. BACKUP!!! by R. Proffitt
Maybe I am putting too much faith into the RAID system. I was hoping that I could avoid or at least minimize the amount of backing up I needed to do with the redundant drives. The HP seemed to be fine but with only RAID 1 capability data corruption seemed to be a potential problem. I had thought that the RAID 5 of the netgear might help in that aspect. I admit that am not that familiar with the pro's and con's of the different RAID systems as a backup system to a HDD failure.
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