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    #11
    Anyone still backing up to C90 cassettes ?
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      #12
      Was considering getting a drobo - anybody got one? I'm not sure I'll ever need more than 32TB.
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        #13
        Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
        Was considering getting a drobo - anybody got one? I'm not sure I'll ever need more than 32TB.


        Not got one with the DroboShare as NAS though, but it's dead easy to use, expand and have running.

        One annoying thing is that it will show up as a 2TB drive (or multiple drives) whether there is more or less than 2TB - unless they have updated the firmware recently. So I have 1.25TB free (plus the striping / redundancy) but it shows up as 2TB free when I started it.

        That said, for expandable, more reliable backup, I'd recommend one. I just then use xcopy to copy the files over from the hard drive to the drobo.

        IIRC someone else here has one - spacecadet, possibly??
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          #14
          Take a look at FreeNAS. Cheap as chips....
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            #15
            Originally posted by AtW View Post
            I am a pro mate, that's my business uses so much data - each day 5 TB more crawled and analysed: it's the power of SKA
            You must have a seriously massive internet connection to be able to download 5TB a day.

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              #16
              Originally posted by TykeMerc View Post
              You must have a seriously massive internet connection to be able to download 5TB a day.
              Either that OR I actually used my brains to devise a solution that worked it around. That was hard to do, economics is a much easier subject.

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                #17
                Originally posted by Platypus View Post
                2 x 1TB Buffalo NAS arrived today

                Oodles of space!
                I have 4TB disk, 32GB ram and 8 cores on the desktop I use for surfing.

                What is sad is that the biggest user of disk space is Boinc.
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                  #18
                  It was only a few years ago that I worked out how long until I would have a terabyte of storage at home.

                  Assuming doubling of capacity every 18 months or so, I should have a petabyte on the home server by 2017.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by bobhope View Post
                    Assuming doubling of capacity every 18 months or so, I should have a petabyte on the home server by 2017.
                    And it will cost £1 mln... or 100 euros...

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