Kettchxxii
08-15-2008, 10:12 AM
Why is it raid arrays always crash on your birthday? I have a backup on an external hard drive, which is rewriting to the array now. Hopefully the darn thing won't be beeping when I get home from work...
I am currently using a synology CS407e 4 bay NAS device connected to my network though a gigabit connection.Inside are 4 WD(7200.10s) 500 gb drives, giving me about 1.39 TB of space. I also have a 1 TB external usb hard drive which has saved my butt twice now...
So where do I go from here? I just lost about 200 GB of data(the important stuff was backed up). This array seems to go down every 4-6 months. I have been in contact with synology, and they replaced my old CS406e with my current model last time. This time franklin suggested that I buy more reliable drives... The drives are fine, it has always been the array that takes a nose dive.
My constaints are currenty money and physical size, as I am poor and on a permanate vacation in Portland. I would like to throw those terabyte seagates in this unit, but have been hearing mixed reviews about the combo. Even if it does work it has been proven that I need a backup. Seeing as I am using a laptop as my primary box out here, I figure my best option would be to just get 6 of the terabytes and a thermaltake blackx, and pray that the drives play nice... If not I would still have access to those drives to do an extremely manual raid 1 till I can find a better solution. It would be a shame to get rid of the nas box, but I don't need the ulcer, expecially when I jump to terabyte drives...
I know this is rambling, structure isn't possible when the only time I have to write this is on my treo on the train to work. Am I just paranoid? How the hell do you backup more than a terabyte effeciently?
:eep:
I am currently using a synology CS407e 4 bay NAS device connected to my network though a gigabit connection.Inside are 4 WD(7200.10s) 500 gb drives, giving me about 1.39 TB of space. I also have a 1 TB external usb hard drive which has saved my butt twice now...
So where do I go from here? I just lost about 200 GB of data(the important stuff was backed up). This array seems to go down every 4-6 months. I have been in contact with synology, and they replaced my old CS406e with my current model last time. This time franklin suggested that I buy more reliable drives... The drives are fine, it has always been the array that takes a nose dive.
My constaints are currenty money and physical size, as I am poor and on a permanate vacation in Portland. I would like to throw those terabyte seagates in this unit, but have been hearing mixed reviews about the combo. Even if it does work it has been proven that I need a backup. Seeing as I am using a laptop as my primary box out here, I figure my best option would be to just get 6 of the terabytes and a thermaltake blackx, and pray that the drives play nice... If not I would still have access to those drives to do an extremely manual raid 1 till I can find a better solution. It would be a shame to get rid of the nas box, but I don't need the ulcer, expecially when I jump to terabyte drives...
I know this is rambling, structure isn't possible when the only time I have to write this is on my treo on the train to work. Am I just paranoid? How the hell do you backup more than a terabyte effeciently?
:eep: