10Tb Harddrive

Thor187 said:
I cant put 5TB of videos and images in the cloud. Not in south africa at least.

Cloud is currently a nice to have imo, but far from a backup solution unless you are storing text files on dropbox.
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There are other alternatives to the cloud. I'm just saying not to rely too heavily on RAID
 
I moved from unraid to greyhole.

the way it works, you can specify which share folder you want to backup and on how many drives.
for example: my photos are being backed up to 3 drives, and my linux distros i only keep on one drive (can always download again).

I still have an unraid license if someone want to buy it from me.....
 
Thor187 said:
Getting expensive real fcking quick. Shait!

So looking at 14K about for the 2 drives + $59 for unRaid

I was tempted to just buy this:

http://www.wootware.co.za/western-digital-my-cloud-mirror-12tb-2-x-6tb-2-bay-nas-server.html but meh I do not know if I trust these things.

My other thought was this:

http://www.wootware.co.za/synology-...bay-256gb-ddr3-ram-800mhz-cpu-nas-server.html and then buy 2 seagate 6TB drives. one will be for the raid configuration.
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rather buy this:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/812830-Lenovo-4-disk-NAS
:D
 
Thor187 said:
Getting expensive real fcking quick. Shait!

So looking at 14K about for the 2 drives + $59 for unRaid

I was tempted to just buy this:

http://www.wootware.co.za/western-digital-my-cloud-mirror-12tb-2-x-6tb-2-bay-nas-server.html but meh I do not know if I trust these things.

My other thought was this:

http://www.wootware.co.za/synology-...bay-256gb-ddr3-ram-800mhz-cpu-nas-server.html and then buy 2 seagate 6TB drives. one will be for the raid configuration.
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Use snapraid instead, its free and and is very similar to unRaid.
 
Thor187 said:
no you read that wrong I mean I will get 2 6TB hardrrives but it wont be 12TB it will be 6tb since one drive will be used for the raid?
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Well you'll use both drives.

They become one.

But I get what you mean.
 
Messugga said:
It's important to understand that RAID isn't a backup solution. And the odds of successfully rebuilding say, a RAID5 array, on a set of very large hard drives, isn't great either. RAID often gives a false sense of security, from what I see.
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It's not a backup solution agreed.

But it removes a single point of failure as would be the case with using a single massive hard drive.

Also paying attention to your monitoring and notifications goes a hell of a long way towards preventing disaster.

Rebuilding a RAID5 array might be a disaster but swopping a dodgy drive before it all goes wrong isn't so bad other that degrading performance. Not a big issue for home users generally.

But that's why I recommend UnRAID it's less complex and isn't real RAID. More like parity backup.
 
Syphonx said:
Use snapraid instead, its free and and is very similar to unRaid.
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But spins up all the drives all the time as I recall.

Which means lower life expectancy and more power.

Also doesn't SnapRAID run on top of another OS?
 
bar1 said:
I moved from unraid to greyhole.

the way it works, you can specify which share folder you want to backup and on how many drives.
for example: my photos are being backed up to 3 drives, and my linux distros i only keep on one drive (can always download again).

I still have an unraid license if someone want to buy it from me.....
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Does Greyhole have a plugin system?

Which UnRAID license do you have?

How much do you want for it? I've only ever used the trial but been meaning to go full bore with the switch when I can buy a big parity drive.
 
SauRoNZA said:
It's not a backup solution agreed.

But it removes a single point of failure as would be the case with using a single massive hard drive.

Also paying attention to your monitoring and notifications goes a hell of a long way towards preventing disaster.

Rebuilding a RAID5 array might be a disaster but swopping a dodgy drive before it all goes wrong isn't so bad other that degrading performance. Not a big issue for home users generally.

But that's why I recommend UnRAID it's less complex and isn't real RAID. More like parity backup.
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RAID10 > RAID5

atleast that's what /g/ told me. never listen to /g/
 
SauRoNZA said:
Does Greyhole have a plugin system?

Which UnRAID license do you have?

How much do you want for it? I've only ever used the trial but been meaning to go full bore with the switch when I can buy a big parity drive.
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I have a plus license and you are welcome to make me an offer...haven't really thought about it.

I use greyhole with an OS called open media vault....
it is highly recommended .http://www.openmediavault.org/
 
Thinking of getting myself a few of these over the next few months. My idea of going 4 x 6TB isn't going to be enough.

Quite an outlay of cash though.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Thinking of getting myself a few of these over the next few months. My idea of going 4 x 6TB isn't going to be enough.

Quite an outlay of cash though.
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Are you space limited? I'd rather get 10x3TB tried and tested HGST than 3x10TB untested drives. I'd rather let the data storage companies benchmark them for me on their cost before getting them.
 
Noah said:
Are you space limited? I'd rather get 10x3TB tried and tested HGST than 3x10TB untested drives. I'd rather let the data storage companies benchmark them for me on their cost before getting them.
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Yes, only have space for 4 disks and I have 12TB of stuff that needs to get on there already. 8TB+ is the only way to go.
 
bar1 said:
I have a plus license and you are welcome to make me an offer...haven't really thought about it.

I use greyhole with an OS called open media vault....
it is highly recommended .http://www.openmediavault.org/
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Yeah OMV was also on my list to test before I commit.

But the plugin support is very important to me and they didn't quite seem to cut it.

UnRAID booting off USB also means a full HDD slot free for me in the Microserver.
 
SauRoNZA said:
But spins up all the drives all the time as I recall.

Which means lower life expectancy and more power.

Also doesn't SnapRAID run on top of another OS?
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It doesn't, it's not striped data. Only the drive with the data spins up.

Yeah but you can run it on Windows or Linux
 
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