Posted: 7/5/2011 6:04:18 PM EDT
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Here's the deal, my main storage drive (2x 750GB drives spanned to form a single 1.5TB drive) and my 1.5TB eSATA BACKUP drive are out of space. While I could add additional hard drives to the tower I have no real options to expand my backup storage because the eSATA dock I have only supports upto a 2TB drive. There's a few kludges I can do in the short term to work around this but I need to start looking at a more long term solution which I think would be some form "industrial" grade NAS. I'm thinking something with at least 4 hote-swapable bays that can support up to a 3TB drive per bay and that supports various RAID functions including spanning, high speed networking and maybe direct connection. Keep in mind I don't have Google level funding and I'm going to need 2 of them plus hard drives |
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Here's the deal, my main storage drive (2x 750GB drives spanned to form a single 1.5TB drive) and my 1.5TB eSATA BACKUP drive are out of space. While I could add additional hard drives to the tower I have no real options to expand my backup storage because the eSATA dock I have only supports upto a 2TB drive.
There's a few kludges I can do in the short term to work around this but I need to start looking at a more long term solution which I think would be some form "industrial" grade NAS. I'm thinking something with at least 4 hote-swapable bays that can support up to a 3TB drive per bay and that supports various RAID functions including spanning, high speed networking and maybe direct connection. Keep in mind I don't have Google level funding and I'm going to need 2 of them plus hard drives QNAP TS-439 Pro (4-bay) or the Synology DS1511+ (5-bay). I have the Synology and it's pretty amazing. A buddy of mine has the 6-bay QNAP and it's outstanding (but spendy) |
| I think I'm going to go for a mid-term solution and get one of these and then build my own NAS from scratch at a later date when I have money. |
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I have this, it has been pretty solid. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136308 |