picky Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 Hey, what do you guys think about this one (see link below)? The only real detriment to me that I see is no web-based photo-sharing application, but it's performance even outdoes the $1,000+ Synology DS-508. Linky: Intel Entry Storage System SS4200-E I'm also still looking into the D-Link DNS-323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure that flatgrass recommended in his post. It's pretty darned hard to beat for the price! -Thanks, man! I also wish to thank seti for a lot of off-line help he's given me with researching this project regarding the LaCie drives. seti: You're the best, man! I owe you! -Glenn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 I believe I might have just hit paydirt: This 1 Tb RAID drive by Linksys (Cisco) was announed at CES 2009 and is now available: http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/NMH410 According to smallnetbuilder.com, it is a top performer and has one of the slicked user web interfaces, which makes it easy for Verna to use. Check it out / your thoughts, please. Thanks, Glenn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Its nice but expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted January 22, 2009 Author Share Posted January 22, 2009 Jay: I agree, but all of the faster performers seem to be a bit spendy and start around that price range with drives. -Glenn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rplace Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Glenn, I am in the same boat as you. That linksys media hub looks pretty sweet. One thing I cannot tell is if it can utilize RAID. Since it has a 2nd drive bay I would like them to both have the same data all the time, not have twice the capacity. Do you know if this is possible with the unit? I would guess worse case you could just have the back software copy everything from the first drive to the second drive on a regular basis. I have ripped all my CDs to MP3 once then had a drive failure. Next I ripped them all to mp3, wav and FLAC then had small back up for just the wav files. After ripping them for the 3rd time I am willing to spend just about any sum of money if I can find something that is set it and forget it. I am pretty lazy when it comes to backing things up.[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picky Posted January 23, 2009 Author Share Posted January 23, 2009 rplace: The answer is YES. Running a second, internal redundant drive for backup is called a RAID 1 configuration and this unit will do that. i.e.: Using 2, 1 TB drives in the unit with the RAID set to 1 gives you a total storage space of 1 TB with a mirrored backup of the same files on the second hard drive. The unit is also capable of running other configurations as well including RAID 5 which provides about 1.5 TB of storage with the entire volume compressed and backed up onto the remaining .5 TB volume for redundancy. RAID 5 is probably the configuration I'll plan to use. - Glenn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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