Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I use a Drobo with 4 3TB drives in. I have upgraded all of them first from 1T then to 2T then to 3T without ever turning the thing off. I think 3TB each is the limit so I'll have to go with a larger Drobo next. I wouldn't hesitate to do it. Tina On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Dante Stella <dstella1 at ameritech.net> wrote: > Mehrdad, > > I've seen that already - with a mix of fascination and horror. Using a PC > for this is both more expensive (since I don't have one sitting around) and > more space-intensive than a purpose-built NAS. It would also be very > expensive to fix if there was a hardware failure (since most hardware RAID > systems seem to require the replication of their host environment to pick > up again). > > The thing that is attractive about the Drobo is that it can be scaled up, > while running, with drives that are mismatched in capacity - that is not a > feature of any other system I have studied and helps me deal with the > effective re-use of internal drives now too small for my Mac Pro. I'm > assuming that the parity data is compressed somehow, since the net > capacities are higher. > > Dante > > > On Jun 8, 2013, at 8:02 PM, mehrdad wrote: > > > dante, take a look @ freenas.org. you can turn an old pc into a massive > > fileserver. and if u are running windows, u can run iscsi which makes ita > > faster solution > > > > ------------------------------------- > > regards, mehrdad > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Dante Stella <dstella1 at ameritech.net> > wrote: > > > >> Any experience with the latest generation NAS version? I'm constantly > >> struggling with expanding backups for photos. > >> > >> Thx > >> Dante > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com