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Discussion in 'Technology Forum' started by jig, May 29, 2008.

  1. May 29, 2008 at 7:16 PM #1
    jig

    jig I prefer breast meat

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    Anybody got any suggestions? My external 500GB Western Digital crashed with everything on it. I was able to recover most of it. I'm looking for something in the 1 TB range either mirrored or RAIDed. TIA
     
  2. May 29, 2008 at 7:50 PM #2
    The Brain

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  3. May 29, 2008 at 8:06 PM #3
    jig

    jig I prefer breast meat

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    I found them on CDW but the user reviews didn't look very good. I'll dig a little further into it. Thanks!
     
  4. May 30, 2008 at 2:30 PM #4
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    I've had a buffalo terastation for a long time, it's been good. Device is pretty quiet (it's under my desk and I forget it's there), has 750GB available with 4 250gb drives in a RAID-5, has gig-e networking, and supports USB printers and hard drives being connected to expand it's server duties.

    That said, it's being sold as soon as my wife defends her dissertation next week (not wanting big tech changes while she's in the final week :)).

    I built a home server 9 months ago to do home virtual labs right, and it's hugely successful, and having a real PC with a real OS and such makes a GIGANTIC difference...it's MUCH faster, many many times. 8GB, 4 cores, and 8 500GB hard drives in various RAID levels will do that though.

    So the buffalo's are okay, just depends what you want. It was GREAT for my wife to have a dedicated off-machine place to store data that didn't have to be super-fast (she used off-line folders and automatic replication, so her data manipulation actually happened locally even though she was pointing to files on the remote p: drive). It was great for me to dump the large libraries of content I was managing somewhere (basically archiving/backing up stuff).

    A LOT of the home NAS stuff (the cheap stuff) is run by very under-powered OS's with little RAM and such, and it shows. If you just want a large RAID'd set of external storage, you can do better with e-sata or even usb connected drives - if you don't need it to actually be networked separate from your PC's, just connect drives to your PC and share them from there...
     

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