columb
Active Member
John,
It is probably too late but I'd like to add few words.
1. Buy two different brands - so if one will fail due to some technical problems, other will be still OK. That is a case for all of my servers.
We had some problems with brand X(no need to name it) and firmware. In really rare situation, disk would report as failed to raid controller despite being OK! Imagine having 3 disks and all of them (or just 2) reporting FAIL!
2. Samsung is not a best buy. Yes, they're cheap and possibly fast but that doesn't really matter if you need drive which will last for some time.
3. RAID will protect from disk failure but NOT from filesystem failure.
I would advise EXTERNAL NAS box/USB drive as a backup solution.
That means as well that you can access your files from any computer in your home.
4. Don't really listen to Dragon's advice. Utter rubbish.
Hope that helps!
Cheers
Chris
It is probably too late but I'd like to add few words.
1. Buy two different brands - so if one will fail due to some technical problems, other will be still OK. That is a case for all of my servers.
We had some problems with brand X(no need to name it) and firmware. In really rare situation, disk would report as failed to raid controller despite being OK! Imagine having 3 disks and all of them (or just 2) reporting FAIL!
2. Samsung is not a best buy. Yes, they're cheap and possibly fast but that doesn't really matter if you need drive which will last for some time.
3. RAID will protect from disk failure but NOT from filesystem failure.
I would advise EXTERNAL NAS box/USB drive as a backup solution.
That means as well that you can access your files from any computer in your home.
4. Don't really listen to Dragon's advice. Utter rubbish.
Hope that helps!
Cheers
Chris