Looking at Networked Ethernet Drives

[chris ashdown]

Hi Martin

The answer is I dont Know

When I first got it, it was the same time as 9.0 so I set it up as the actinic sites on the terastation, and all seemed fine except the speed and also the sinc error

I therefore chickened out and re-installed with everything on the main computer, found no real difference in speed on secondary PC's but faster on main PC (I think just V9 slowness not the tera), and no difference in sinc error

Then sinc error sorted, but waiting for 9.3 before I transfer system back to intended i,e sites on Tera and program on main computer. It is the obvious way to go as you always have a backup of the sites / databases on the raid rather then just relying on the once a day snapshot

[fleetwood]

Ok Thanks Chris

I've been mulling over a few options for a NAS device, but can't make up my mind which. With the damn thing costing nearly as much as a new PC, I don't wanna buy a pup, but I'll settle on one eventually.

As fas a v9 goes, I'm beginning to think I'm never going to get an upgrade off the ground!
That old sage advice of waiting 6-12 months before buying the upgrade is never truer.

[leehack]

As fas a v9 goes, I'm beginning to think I'm never going to get an upgrade off the ground!
That old sage advice of waiting 6-12 months before buying the upgrade is never truer.

Think on the positive side Martin, that archive of software versions you are collecting could be worth millions to your child(ren) in the future.

[chris ashdown]

One thing I do like about the tera station is that whilst it's 1000gig it spread over 4 x 250 gig drives, so as I have it set up I have raid 0 and two x 250 gig disks

I understand from a number of experts that the 250gig disks are the most reliable but no doubt someone knows better

[gabrielcrowe]

if the nas supports 2x2x250 (mirrored raid 0, two 500gb partitions, over 4 250gb drives), then I suggest you use that.

the reason is that you'll have data redundancy, and you'll sleep better at night.

the problem is that you'll only really get 500gb out of the drive.

[fleetwood]

that archive of software versions you are collecting could be worth millions to your child(ren) in the future

I really ought to track down all the pre-V5 versions to complete my set

On the subject of data security, all these various flavours of RAID are fine, but one must not forget physically security as well.
You can mirror and schmirror all you like, but if your device gets knicked or fried, your still up the creek.
I like the idea of removable drives, which I assume you can simply swop out and take home to provde some offsite security.

[leehack]

I really ought to track down all the pre-V5 versions to complete my set

LOL, they're not worth anything unless Actinic folds, you could always download them off the actinic site though to be sure.

[chris ashdown]

I really ought to track down all the pre-V5 versions to complete my set

On the subject of data security, all these various flavours of RAID are fine, but one must not forget physically security as well.
You can mirror and schmirror all you like, but if your device gets knicked or fried, your still up the creek.
I like the idea of removable drives, which I assume you can simply swop out and take home to provde some offsite security.

You could do this but we just make a daily snapshot onto a portable hard drive and take that home

The raid is more to cover loss each day between snapshots ( a live backup) lets face it the computer is more likely to screw up whilst you are using it than any other time except on start up

[Mark H]

"I like the idea of removable drives, which I assume you can simply swop out and take home to provde some offsite security"

We run a NAS (Netgear ReadyNAS) running four drives 2x2x500Gb. We don't remove the drives, we just unplug the whole unit and take it off-site overnight. Netgear have even provided a handle on the back of the unit.