I’ve gotten quite some response on my Netgear SC101 post (in short: they don’t always work). There’s some catharsis in bashing inferior products, but at the end of the day, how DOES on store lots of data securely? Let’s make this more specific: how would you store 1 terabyte (1000 GB) of data on your desktop?
Let take these as requirements:
- raw storage: 1TB or more (if used with RAID-0 striping or JBOD config)
- redundant storage: RAID-1: leaves 500GB, RAID-5: leaves 660GB to 800GB
- affordable: anything higher that €2000 (2$/GB) is not an option
- accessible via either Firewire/USB or Ethernet (Gigabit)
- accessible by Mac, PC and Linux
- preferably not rack-mounted (who has a 19″ rack at home)
- hot-swappable disks are a big advantage
What have you tried and what are you happy with?
Some possible theoretical options:
- Direct attached drive
- e.g. Lacie Biggest F800 1GB, 4-disk S-ATA: €1299
- meets requirements? YES. Only Firewire + USB
- Network attached storage
- e.g. Maxtor Shared Storage II 1GB, 2-disk: €899
- meets requirements? YES. Only Ethernet
- Lacie Ethernet disk would not work: it’s rackmounted and has no RAID
- Build your own server
- e.g. Dell PowerEdge SC430 with 2 x SATA 500GB drives and Linux: around €1000
- meets requirements? YES. Only Ethernet
For me, the only solution I have experienced to be 100% reliable is building a dedicated PC with a hardware RAID card. What is your experience?
2006-08-26 at 2:39 pm
Dit lijkt heel erg op die Maxtor, maar heeft wat meer mogelijkheden: iomega 1TB GIGABIT ETHERNET STORCENTER
Hoe goed en betrouwbaar het ding is, weet ik niet.
2006-08-27 at 12:53 pm
Het september nummer van CT Magazine heeft drie artikelen hierover.
2006-08-28 at 4:46 pm
Ik heb een tijd met een dedicated linuxpc gewerkt met daarin 6 schijven van 250GB als JBOD (met LVM), maar toen die het na anderhalf jaar een na een begonnen te begeven – leve backups – toch maar overgeschakeld naar een Lacie biggest disk 1.6TB in RAID5 (firewire 800). Wordt gebruikt in een gigabit ethernet netwerk met macs, linuxpc’s en een windowsmachine en absoluut geen klagen van.
2007-05-09 at 6:31 pm
Hi:
I suggest you 2 INTEL NAS SS4400-E and 8 x 500 GB SATA HD.
The first is configured in RAID 0 (2000 GB).
The second (for backups purposes of the first) is configured in RAID 5.
I just purchase it in my company.
Totally awesome !!
Total cost: 2.100 €
If you need more informations, don’t hesitate to contact me.
2007-06-15 at 4:21 pm
If anyone would think the Western Digital MyBook Pro 1TB was a good idea, first read http://www.tomrafteryit.net/western-digital-my-book-pro-edition-ii-sucks/
Bottom-line: it’s not reliable.
Now guess on what mirrored 500GB volume all my data is stored …
2009-05-29 at 5:36 am
hi there i guss get you a 1 terabyte ssd from ocz