Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I went perusing these solutions... and found there were a lot of models, ranging in price from a few hundred to several thousand dollars. 2-6 drives, with a list of approved drives..... which was most interesting..... For the non pro, some of these solutions are really pricey.... for the pro, they are cheap....same equipment, different perspective..... For me, the problem is figuring out what it is I NEED rather than WANT.....and what is most reliable within a reasonable cost constraint..... I am willing to save a buck by buying my own drives ( from the approved list.....) so I only really need the box. 2/4/6 drive capability... with 2TB per drive, this is a lot of storage capabillity. I know why I would want 2 drives ( in case 1 goes south....) but.... Why would I want 4 drives ( capability)? 6? Anyone have an opinion for an amateur? Note that currently I only have about 65GB of images digitized..... and maybe another 100GB still to scan..... Frank Filippone Red735i at earthlink.net ReadyNAS boxes. I've used several generations of them, most having gone through at least one drive replacement/rebuild cycle, for years without (yet!) losing data. They seem solidly engineered to their price-points. Pay less, and they're more likely to engineer in lower performance than lower reliability (although the really big ones with the redundant power supplies are bound to have an edge, I suppose). http://www.readynas.com/ One system administrator I know chose to buy another brand of array because the ReadyNAS people weren't yet listing the latest, highest-capacity drives he wanted to use in their hardware-compatibility list. I, on the other hand, took that as a further reason to prefer a ReadyNAS: they actually try to test drives for awhile before approving them. I wouldn't consider an array with fewer than four drives, and note that with six or more drives, you can choose to waste enough capacity that the array should survive TWO simultaneous disk failures. Cool.