Reply to: Backup drive / Network drive

[Ardesco]

I take it all back. It's also made by Apple, so it must be great and looks sexy too.

I'll have three

I'll admit it does look good, but not good enough to blow that sort of money. Surely most people who buy rack mount kit don't care too much how it looks, just how it performs. It's not like you're going to let Joe public wander into your data centre to have a fiddle whenever he fancies....

I'm surprised they sell any tbh.

Nobody ever got anywhere in hardware sales buy selling the cheapest bit of kit

I'm a buyer, not a seller

[Moscow Mule]

...no one seems to have a good thing to say about the MyBook....

I think it depends on what version you buy - I've got the "Pro" (not Studio or vanilla) and it's good.

[ChimpMaster]

I've got a lacie NAS thingie - 500GB, the one with a blue button on the front.

It's utter tulipe. Noisy, slow (even with a wired gigabit network) and generally ugly.

Is it for a PC or a laptop - if a PC consider getting a Firewire800 card and one of these little gems - which handles the back ups from my imac most admirably (I don't need the card as FW800 is built in).

It's for a PC but no one seems to have a good thing to say about the MyBook. It was going to be my first choice because it seems simple to use in a plug and play way and I was going to get the NAD version to share the data over my LAN. But alas no, I guess I need to find another solution.

[Moscow Mule]

Outrageously overpriced!!!

One of these would do the job:

http://www.dabs4work.com/productview...2,4294954411,7

HTH

Nobody ever got anywhere in hardware sales buy selling the cheapest bit of kit

[TheFaQQer]

ah, but it's all in the configuration - for a mere €1300 more you could have 3TB

I take it all back. It's also made by Apple, so it must be great and looks sexy too.

I'll have three

[Moscow Mule]

I've got a lacie NAS thingie - 500GB, the one with a blue button on the front.

It's utter tulipe. Noisy, slow (even with a wired gigabit network) and generally ugly.

Is it for a PC or a laptop - if a PC consider getting a Firewire800 card and one of these little gems - which handles the back ups from my imac most admirably (I don't need the card as FW800 is built in).

[Moscow Mule]

Seems a tad expensive for an 80GB backup device

ah, but it's all in the configuration - for a mere €1300 more you could have 3TB

[Grim Reaper]

I use a linkstation buffalo 250Gb. Has its own OS, Portal with a built in backup program. You can backup to another USB device on a schedule with differential, full or append modes.
Has a 1 Gb interface, is AD compatible, built in FTP server, tea maker, etc.
Get one.

[Ardesco]

Overkill?

Outrageously overpriced!!!

One of these would do the job:

http://www.dabs4work.com/productview...2,4294954411,7

HTH

[TheFaQQer]

Overkill?

Seems a tad expensive for an 80GB backup device

[Moscow Mule]

Overkill?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I got one of the mybook things on Saturday - it went back yesterday
My opinion - garbage.
I put it on my network - followed the instructions - you HAVE to install mionet (up to 500Mb) and then got "disk mount failed". Eventually , got it to mount for a bit - very very very slow. Cancelled my backup - then lost connectivity. Tried the advanced manual, rescanned, reset device - powered eveything off, tried again - on about the 20th attempt got on the stupid device - on a new drive letter!!- deleted any data I had put on. Took device back.
I have no idea how I eventually managed to get on it - what I did different each time when I finally got on.
Don't recommend it!!
Will probably be geting a Thecus device - more expensive - but recommended by other contrators here.

Seconded - I have a MyBook and wouldn't recommend it due to similar experiences. I've persevered with mine, but frankly, it's pants. I also e-mailed the support folk with a question, they didn't answer until well outside of their published response promise, and gave an answer that was no help (I solved the problem in the interim using Google).

Other things to bear in mind about MyBook - it tries to stop you sharing some file types (although this can be hacked)
It runs under a version of Linux which allows it to impose security restrictions and stuff that you can't control easily (unless you want to hack about in it in which case you can more or less do what you like).

[KackAttack]

I use a second HDD in my PC for backups, using Vista very quick. (30 mins for a 300gb complete backup)

I rotate the second disk with another one, kept separate from the PC in case the PC get's stolen.

[dmini]

I got one of the mybook things on Saturday - it went back yesterday
My opinion - garbage.
I put it on my network - followed the instructions - you HAVE to install mionet (up to 500Mb) and then got "disk mount failed". Eventually , got it to mount for a bit - very very very slow. Cancelled my backup - then lost connectivity. Tried the advanced manual, rescanned, reset device - powered eveything off, tried again - on about the 20th attempt got on the stupid device - on a new drive letter!!- deleted any data I had put on. Took device back.
I have no idea how I eventually managed to get on it - what I did different each time when I finally got on.
Don't recommend it!!
Will probably be geting a Thecus device - more expensive - but recommended by other contrators here.

[gadgetman]

I'm relying on a 4 disk RAID 5 array (2TB total) to provide my security, along with DAT backups of some critical stuff. I've had one drive go down in a year and it worked fine whilst I hot-swapped it out.

I lose 25% of total capacity but at least this way I get to use the drives rather than having a complete duplicate that will (hopefully) rarely be needed.

Only thing I'm not covered for is two drives going down at the same time but this could be said for the USB option too.