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Originally Posted by Halcyon
Anyone using a terabyte(or more) NAS storage system? How do they like it? Easy to set up?
I have 5 external firewire drives already and am thinking maybe I need to start thinking bigger.
(like: http://www.buy.com/prod/Buffalo_Tera.../10396259.html)
Or should I start looking at tape backups?
any advice from teh video heads!? |
That Buffalo TeraStation is 1TB raw. Once you RAID it, format it you will lose storage. RAID5 will be your best bet for redundancy. Do you have a price you are trying to stay around? If you have a machine already that has additional bays for harddrives and possibly a large power supply (which can be upgraded) then you can just buy some 250GB drives and a 3ware RAID controller and use that. Or if you have a cheap machine laying around get the 3ware card with whatever ports you want and just add drives then use this to make your own NAS very simply.
http://www.serverelements.com/naslite.php
This can be run on a Pentium 200Mhz if needed.
All depends on if you want to be able to grow it later. I have a 3TB (2.8TB formatted) setup.
Hit my up on ICQ if you need any help or answers. I manage many large types of storage.
Brad