[X4U] NAS Drive Recommendations

[Joe Sporleder]

On Apr 26, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote:

> On Apr 26, 2012, at 2:29 PM,4/26, Joe Sporleder wrote:
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>> Yep, I already make regular backups for offsite and other reasons, and that wouldn't change if we moved our AFP to a NAS.
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> I've looked at this several times and every time keep coming back to the conclusion that using standard FW drives without RAID and just using 2 of them with a daily or weekly rsync or CarbonCopyCloner or something duplication setup is way cheaper than any of the NAS solutions…particularly when you consider that another drive will be needed fro backup anyway. My wife and I are moving into an RV full time in a month and will keep our two MBPs which are our daily drivers. I have a mini that used to be hooked up to our HDTV that will serve the same purpose in the RV as well as providing a central file server, media server, and Time Machine destination. I've got additional externals to keep in the truck and car for "offsite" backups since cloud based for everything will be too expensive with on the road bandwidth limitations; so I'll only backup critical stuff to the cloud. Photos will get 2 copies on drives attached to the server and another 2 copies on drives in the truck and car.
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> The geek in me really wants the super duper RAID/NAS setup; but the realistic in me says stick with normal drives.

In my situation, the NAS would replace a Mac mini snow leopard server in a publishing workflow environment.

Joe