swatty
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Post by swatty on Aug 18, 2010 15:42:45 GMT
I have almost filled up my 500GB USB Drive attached to my iMac, so need to start thinking about purchasing Network Attached Storage, but which one I have been looking at NetGear ReadyNAS Duo with 2x1TB (so I can have RAID) has anyone had any experience of using this, or any other NAS product, on their home network? Cheers Simon
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Post by Forum Cat on Aug 19, 2010 12:11:38 GMT
Not cheap but I think my next buy will be a Drobo.
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Post by fastmac on Aug 19, 2010 21:12:53 GMT
I had an original Drobo and it moaned and moaned to put bigger and bigger hard drives in it even when I had only 50% of space used, then it went tits up a few months after guarantee ran out. I would never buy any "managed" NAS, I much prefer to build my own and use the JBOD system (just a bunch of disks). My current NAS has 3 x 1TB + a 2TB HD's in it. iTunes library is on the 2TB HD and iPhoto library on a 1TB HD, with movies and Time Machine on the other 2 x 1TB
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Post by Alex on Aug 19, 2010 22:49:17 GMT
This is a bit off topic, but how do you keep everything backed up on your computer? My setup is my iMac with all apps and stuff on that HD and my External one has my Time Machine partition, a load of random stuff and iTunes library on it. Should I be doing it the other way around? With the iTunes and random stuff on my internal HD and only use the External for Time Machine?
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Post by beerbum on Aug 20, 2010 12:31:01 GMT
This is a bit off topic, but how do you keep everything backed up on your computer? My setup is my iMac with all apps and stuff on that HD and my External one has my Time Machine partition, a load of random stuff and iTunes library on it. Should I be doing it the other way around? With the iTunes and random stuff on my internal HD and only use the External for Time Machine? My set up is as follows: All working documents in a Dropbox folder so sync'd to the cloud. Time machine on my time capsule External Firewire hard drive which does an evening SuperDuper backup 2nd external Firewire drive that I keep off-site (at my mother-in-law's since she's local) which I pick up every few weeks to do another SuperDuper back up. This way I have my up to date working files on 4 different media (iMac, Time Machine, SuperDuper and Dropbox) and in two locations (office and cloud) with everything bar the very latest in two locations (office and the mother-in-law's) and on different drives. Works for me as I don't have masses of video and can get away with the free 2Gb Dropbox service. The merits or otherwise of keeping your iTunes library on a separate drive is something I don't have any knowledge of....
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swatty
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Post by swatty on Aug 20, 2010 15:44:19 GMT
My set up is as follows: All working documents in a Dropbox folder so sync'd to the cloud. Time machine on my time capsule External Firewire hard drive which does an evening SuperDuper backup 2nd external Firewire drive that I keep off-site (at my mother-in-law's since she's local) which I pick up every few weeks to do another SuperDuper back up. This way I have my up to date working files on 4 different media (iMac, Time Machine, SuperDuper and Dropbox) and in two locations (office and cloud) with everything bar the very latest in two locations (office and the mother-in-law's) and on different drives. WOW some of my enterprise clients don't have backup processes that comprehensive This is a bit off topic, but how do you keep everything backed up on your computer? My setup is my iMac with all apps and stuff on that HD and my External one has my Time Machine partition, a load of random stuff and iTunes library on it. Should I be doing it the other way around? With the iTunes and random stuff on my internal HD and only use the External for Time Machine? Alex, assuming your iMac has enough disk space then the best solution would be to keep your important stuff like iTunes local and have the time machine on your external drive. This will reduce the possibility of I/O errors and, therefore, minimise the risk of data corruption. There is no reason why you cannot keep the "random stuff" on the external drive. Cheers Simon
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Post by beerbum on Aug 20, 2010 16:56:01 GMT
WOW some of my enterprise clients don't have backup processes that comprehensive Why thanks Swatty! I used to sell fault tolerant networking equipment and once you get into the mindset….. Speaking of my mindset - it's five to six on a friday so Beer o'clock!!
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Post by wierdostomps on Aug 20, 2010 17:25:11 GMT
Alex, assuming your iMac has enough disk space then the best solution would be to keep your important stuff like iTunes local and have the time machine on your external drive. This will reduce the possibility of I/O errors and, therefore, minimise the risk of data corruption. There is no reason why you cannot keep the "random stuff" on the external drive. Cheers Simon Yes, I had my iTunes & iPhoto libraries on an external drive attached to my wife's iMac to make it easier to share the libraries - but I realised that TM wasn't backing them up. So a couple of happy days plus a new la Cie Quadra and I swapped them over. So I now have an external disk attached to both my wife and daughter's iMacs. My daughter's is only for TM, but my wife's is partitioned - half for TM, the other half is a shared archive drive. I have a D2 Quadra on my desk which I plug into my laptop whenever I am at my desk for a TM backup. In addition, each machine is set up with a free Mozy backup for documents. I use Dropbox to back up my "Current Work" folder - and also to share those files with colleagues. And finally, I back up my Documents folder to my iDisk using Backup. I guess I am a candidate for a NAS solution really, but I've never had both time and money enough at the same time to make the switch. One day…
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swatty
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Post by swatty on Aug 23, 2010 18:17:26 GMT
2TB Western Digital MyBook World purchased today. Happily (and silently) running as a 1TB RAID 1 partition available to my Macs and work's Windoze Laptop. Chuffed
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Post by Steve Ralling on Aug 27, 2010 14:54:23 GMT
I'm using an original Drobo, loaded with 4x2TB Western Digital drives attached to a PogoPlug. Works great!
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Post by Steve Ralling on Oct 31, 2010 13:26:49 GMT
Oh, and avoid Western Digital My World Book (or whatever it is called) - I got one of these too, a nice big 1TB one, and it is RUBBISH! - Keeps disappearing from the network - pretty poor stuff for a NAS! Best avoided!
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