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looseliam

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With all the computers I have, it's becoming increasingly difficult to remember what is where.

I was thinking of doing one of the following:

Have a dumb server used just for network storage, most likely NFS and raid0.

Have some stand-alone product to host files.

Suggestions?

TIA
 
There are a number of systems on the market. I would suggest any of the Western Digital MyBook line that have the network storage functionality. They were very easy to setup and connect. The only drawback I ran into was my Mac computers could not automount the drives for TimeMachine because they don't support AFP. *shrugs* Otherwise they're great...I would suggest just dropping the money and doing the 1TB drive if you're going to center everything from a few machines to it.
 
The money it would cost for one of those stand alones I could put into a new box.

But why wouldn't raid0 work?
 
looseliam said:
The money it would cost for one of those stand alones I could put into a new box.

But why wouldn't raid0 work?
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Check this and this for descriptions of Raid levels. Raid 1 might be better for you for redundancy.

For devices, Linksys has the NAS200 which looks pretty cool.

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There's also the HP Media Vault which is marketed more consumer-based right out of the box but the 300 or 500 GB models may be too small for you depending on how much storage you'll want.

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I was in your situation about 3 weeks ago. My external HD had just failed, and I wanted a solution which had backup/redundancy capabilities.

I looked through all of the NAS boxes out there, but I kept reading horror stories from people saying how unreliable/expensive they were.

Then I stumbled onto Windows Home Server! It's truly the most useful OS Microsoft has released. It's based on Windows 2003 Small Business. It has the ability to backup your computers automatically, and has redundancy capabilities *WITHOUT* resorting to RAID. Essentially, if you have more than one HD in the server box, WHS allows you to set "duplication" to ON, which duplicates the files to the second HD.

I purchased new components 3 weeks ago and put WHS on it and it has been flawless! I highly recommend, no matter what you think of Microsoft. This is really a killer OS!

The only catch is that the OS is not sold at retailers (BestBuy, ...). If you want just the OS, you have to go to Newegg to get the OEM version. Otherwise, if you wish to buy a new machine entirely, HP has begun selling these machines.

Websites: http://mshws.com
http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/default.aspx?SiteID=50

Both sites are excellent sources of information.
 
thermodynamics said:
It has the ability to backup your computers automatically, and has redundancy capabilities *WITHOUT* resorting to RAID. Essentially, if you have more than one HD in the server box, WHS allows you to set "duplication" to ON, which duplicates the files to the second HD.
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hm .. I don't see any reason why this should be better than raid? Did I miss something?
 
It's like RAID, but WHS doesn't require the hardware RAID controller.

Plus, it's "smart". The PC Backups are NOT duplicated, but all of the folders stored on the server can be (you can select yes or no for each folder). It allows you to set exactly what you want duplicated, and duplicates only what needs to be duplicated.
 
Ahh, I see.

Time to get to work.

On another note, after two days of trying to beat a computer into submission, I've realised that one of my boxes is too new for NT4 TSE. You should see the kernel dump when it crashes on setup. What a headache. But it took a lot just to get to setup. I knew I still had it in me.
 
noelie said:
NT4 TSE? Wow - you de man !! (*8*)

Kernel dumps are beautiful in their own horrible way :)
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Yep.

I have a thing for NT4. I dunno why.

Hell, up until a couple years ago my main box was still running NT4 Server.

I miss it some days. I finally gutted the box and removed the hard drives after a full back-up. I booted it one last time.

*sigh*

We had almost 8 years together on one install. I had that SOB tweaked to the max. It was, for lack of better words, perfect.
 
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