isn't the real benefit of a NAS that you can access the data from any connected media around the house? So if you want to watch a stored movie or show someone family photos on the TV then you just stream them from the NAS. Or if you and the Mrs want to work on shared documents then you can do this easily from one NAS disk rather than having to share files between "his and hers" laptops.
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Originally posted by radish2008 View PostWhy not just get a decent UPS ?
Might be worth considering at some stage in the future, but at the moment it's not a requirement.Comment
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostSo as per the thread title, what would you recommend?merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostSo as per the thread title, what would you recommend?
Bit power hungry (about 300w idle I think) but in the 4/5 years I've had it it's never need anything, disks all fine (12 x 1TB 3.5" SAS) plus I can hook some fibre up to it if I could be arsed anymore.
I've had enough of doing what I do at work at home too and as others here, seem to be storing a load of drop I don't need - I've hived off the important stuff, docs, pics etc to cloud and just garnering the courage to blat it and maybe flog it.
Got a DS3400 (24TB) too and TS3100 tape changer too, 24 slots, LTO3, too much crap to be honest, and almost a full time job to keep on top of.....Comment
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I have a couple of sharecenter's They are not massively high powered or speedy but they behave very well and at £50 they are cheap.
I have one in the house, one in the manshack. Both hidden against human threats.
Copy off site the really important stuff as well.
If you have more than a couple of Terabytes of essentials then you are an exhibitionist.
I do have 12 TB of ripped DVDs though.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostSo as per the thread title, what would you recommend?Originally posted by Stevie Wonder BoyI can't see any way to do it can you please advise?
I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.Comment
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Originally posted by stek View PostI find those HP Microservers a pile of underpowered poop..
Even the basic Celeron + 4GB RAM is more than what's in the sub £600 consumer NAS, same form factor and enterprise level of hardware support for a fraction of the cost.Comment
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Originally posted by sal View PostStick a Xeon 1265L and 16GB of RAM in it and it will be more powerful than your DS3400 and likely the Orcale box too, you don't need FC for a home NAS especially when coupled with noise and power consumption.
Even the basic Celeron + 4GB RAM is more than what's in the sub £600 consumer NAS, same form factor and enterprise level of hardware support for a fraction of the cost.
The Oracle box is basically an X4500 I think with 32gb RAM, two Xeon's, 2x1TB 3.5" mirrored boot drives, this odd flash-memory card, and 12 disks stuffed in the front on SAS RAID, pretty powerful even now I think. And a LOM so I can remote on/off it.
Having said that can't be arsed with it anymore - 90% of what's on it is crap.Comment
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