Posted: 11/11/2012 5:54:37 AM EDT
| I run windows 7 and use a Samsung SSD as my boot drive and store music family videos hunting videos etc on slave drives a 350gb and a 1tb. Is there a way I can use them as remote storage away from the desktop so if it were to get stolen or house damage I was (I was thinking of keeping them in a safe room in the basement) I would be protected. I don't need a server this is the only computer in the house and I'm not interested in online back up. Do I have any options? |
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I would suggest getting something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Pogoplug-Series-Backup-Device-Version/dp/B006I5MKZY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1352646130&sr=8-1&keywords=pogoplug You would plug hard drives into it and it would share them out to your network. This could be put anywhere in your house. |
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Get a NAS. I like Synology two bay units myself. I'm real fond of Drobos...but they are not extremely cheap but once you have the file shares set up it is very easy to use and add storage to (my mom has one for media storage that she's had for 3 years now and we both love it). I on the other hand, currently use an old PC I got from work with Ubuntu Server running on it. It gives me a few more features over a NAS but is a bit harder to set up (need knowledge of Linux) but I keep OS isos, program isos, backups of my Mac (which I keep on my mom's Drobo as well), movies which I stream using Plex (supports some NAS, not Drobo), and of course some simple files that I edit often when bouncing between my computers. Also have a bluray drive so I can rip movies or ssh into the disks seeing as my ASUS and Macbook Pro don't have optical drives (I took the one out of the MBP to put a SSD in as a boot drive). I have a total of $150 in that computer ($100 for the 1.5TB drive, $50 for the bluray) but don't have RAID support. I'm actually getting ready to upgrade to a ProLiant home server which will have RAID but really only because it gives me options a NAS wouldn't give me for a similar price. |
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Get a NAS. I like Synology two bay units myself. I'm real fond of Drobos...but they are not extremely cheap but once you have the file shares set up it is very easy to use and add storage to (my mom has one for media storage that she's had for 3 years now and we both love it). I on the other hand, currently use an old PC I got from work with Ubuntu Server running on it. It gives me a few more features over a NAS but is a bit harder to set up (need knowledge of Linux) but I keep OS isos, program isos, backups of my Mac (which I keep on my mom's Drobo as well), movies which I stream using Plex (supports some NAS, not Drobo), and of course some simple files that I edit often when bouncing between my computers. Also have a bluray drive so I can rip movies or ssh into the disks seeing as my ASUS and Macbook Pro don't have optical drives (I took the one out of the MBP to put a SSD in as a boot drive). I have a total of $150 in that computer ($100 for the 1.5TB drive, $50 for the bluray) but don't have RAID support. I'm actually getting ready to upgrade to a ProLiant home server which will have RAID but really only because it gives me options a NAS wouldn't give me for a similar price. I chanced upon a Drobo unit and fell in love with it. Mine supports 5 hard drives. I slapped in 5 4TB drives and have not looked back! |
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Get a NAS. I like Synology two bay units myself. I'm real fond of Drobos...but they are not extremely cheap but once you have the file shares set up it is very easy to use and add storage to (my mom has one for media storage that she's had for 3 years now and we both love it). I on the other hand, currently use an old PC I got from work with Ubuntu Server running on it. It gives me a few more features over a NAS but is a bit harder to set up (need knowledge of Linux) but I keep OS isos, program isos, backups of my Mac (which I keep on my mom's Drobo as well), movies which I stream using Plex (supports some NAS, not Drobo), and of course some simple files that I edit often when bouncing between my computers. Also have a bluray drive so I can rip movies or ssh into the disks seeing as my ASUS and Macbook Pro don't have optical drives (I took the one out of the MBP to put a SSD in as a boot drive). I have a total of $150 in that computer ($100 for the 1.5TB drive, $50 for the bluray) but don't have RAID support. I'm actually getting ready to upgrade to a ProLiant home server which will have RAID but really only because it gives me options a NAS wouldn't give me for a similar price. I chanced upon a Drobo unit and fell in love with it. Mine supports 5 hard drives. I slapped in 5 4TB drives and have not looked back! Probably the same model my mom has. Its running a mix of 3 2TB (one has failed), a 3TB, and I'm bringing her a spare 1.5TB when I head that way for Thanksgiving. I just wish they would support Plex, then I could bring the computer I left there as a media server back (again, spare from work that didn't cost me anything). |