NAS (Network Attached Storage) box with RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)

Traveller1981

udjamaflip wrote: »

This is the one my old company used to use, and it works great!

http://www.ncixus.com/products/17109/SC101NA/Netgear/

IDE hard drives???

I think most modern computers of the last few years all run SATA drives.

jamalfatty

Get yourself a copy of the new PC Pro magazine, there's a roundup and reviews of several NAS devices, all of which I think would fit your needs from what you say.

Daniel_B

Hows about this NAS enclosure? Think there are £5 discount vouchers around for maplin too, and free delivery at present:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=226732

Rtrdo

You may be interested in this, if the auction stays below £200.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=280311753237

This thing is brilliant - we ended up buying 4 of them at work as backup solutions, one for each site. (I was a systems administrator for XL airways, hardly a small network).

Apart from being network attached storage so you can map a drive like on another computer, it will also do backups automatically for you.
You install the disksafe software and then set a schedule.
It takes a mirror image of your hard drive (first one takes ages, incremental backup thereafter - with a history of the last 4 backups to restore from).
If your HD fails, your computer can network boot (or boot using supplied CD) and then immediately recover the OS and Data from the last restore point.
I've got 6 licenses for the software with it (only one comes in the box, extras are £25 to £30)
We used to use it to back up 6 servers at a time, every night.

d900

spend some more cash and get a qnap 209

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLL_en-GB&q=QNAP+TS-209+II+Two-Bay+NAS&meta=

cheeky

frog_southampton wrote: »

yea i've seen that one, must be pretty old technology if its not compatible with vista?

its to do with vista being set up with a different version of samba to most samba devices - fix

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4434907782.html

xycom1

That should be 'inexpensive' disks.

frog_bounce

from wiki raid

More recently, marketers representing industry RAID manufacturers have revised the term, substituting "Independent" for Inexpensive, a convenient (though inaccurate) means of avoiding the negative connotations associated with "inexpensive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks

xycom1

LOL, when the term was invented, it was 'inexpensive' and that was a benefit of the concept.

energy80s

Just remember that a RAID array can easily become corrupt if you have mains supply problems! The only way to insure a proper backup is to use two seperate drives in seperate enclosures. This will not allow for automated backup but will insure that if one goes pop, you have a fully working backup elsewhere. Having seen 2 raid arrays die in the last year, I wouldn't recommend it as a failsafe way of protecting data. Oh and two other points, never trust optical media, and remember that 100% of hard drives fail - now rest easy!!