Morning to you all
Prompted by reading a review of Nas boxes this month in Custom PC, I have come to realise that it really is about time that I buy myself some sort of network available storage and backup system.
So I am thinking one of the NAS boxes with a pair of 1.5TB drives in Raid Mirror will give me both those functions............
Only thing is I have read before that raid mirror DOES NOT provide a foolproof backup function - but in the review It states that it does, hence my confusion!!
I basically have about 150GB of photos 500GB of music and 50GB of archived nonsense that I would like to protect. So if I did what I was thinking would I be protecting myself and allowing access printer, memory stick to both machines as an extra benefit??
Thanks
Syd


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RAID isn't about data integrity but availability and sometimes performance. Most home users however simply don't need that, despite most people accepting RAID as the norm for file servers/NAS boxes it's simply not necessary most of the time - JBOD or single disks is often the best choice for home users. Also note that rebuilding an array can be painfully slow, especially on the embedded hardware present in NAS boxes, usually taking much more time than restoring a backup. If the NAS itself is the backup then you could leave it at that, otherwise you'd be best backing up the NAS to either another NAS or depending on how much data is added to the NAS on a regular basis you could use USB HDDs to mirror the contents using rsync or something but that would depend on what's on it, if you need past archives etc.
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