Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mehrdad, I've seen that already - with a mix of fascination and horror. Using a PC for this is both more expensive (since I don't have one sitting around) and more space-intensive than a purpose-built NAS. It would also be very expensive to fix if there was a hardware failure (since most hardware RAID systems seem to require the replication of their host environment to pick up again). The thing that is attractive about the Drobo is that it can be scaled up, while running, with drives that are mismatched in capacity - that is not a feature of any other system I have studied and helps me deal with the effective re-use of internal drives now too small for my Mac Pro. I'm assuming that the parity data is compressed somehow, since the net capacities are higher. Dante On Jun 8, 2013, at 8:02 PM, mehrdad wrote: > dante, take a look @ freenas.org. you can turn an old pc into a massive > fileserver. and if u are running windows, u can run iscsi which makes ita > faster solution > > ------------------------------------- > regards, mehrdad > > > On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Dante Stella <dstella1 at ameritech.net> > wrote: > >> Any experience with the latest generation NAS version? I'm constantly >> struggling with expanding backups for photos. >> >> Thx >> Dante >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information