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Originally Posted by bbusybookworm
Personally, would suggest to wait off on the Drobo for Version 2.0
Because, besides the $450 cost, add another $150 if you want to use it as a NAS.
That is before adding any drives. And no firewire or eSATA.
Even Western Digital has come around with a 1TB drive with USB, Firewire & eSata for around $200. Add a Print server any you've got a NAS.
Now the Idea of turning your old PC into a Linux based NAS would work, but it is really inefficient power wise, and will probably not look very nice on your cabinet.  |
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I'm not sure why raid is so important. If you have enough storage to meet your needs on one drive? I still can't see spending $500 even if he does have some drives. Put the drives in your current PC and back up to them... why add $500 to the cost.
What's so unsecure about S3? BTW: If you use Jungle Disk everything is 100% encrypted by your PC before it is sent to the S3 data center.
BOb
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I agree with bbusybookworm, as I mentioned the Drobo has some flaws and sure Drobo 2.0 will be better. That is, if you can wait...
And if you want a NAS then the ReadyNAS is IMHO your best choice.
About the other offerings, you see the Drobo and the readyNAS are more expensive because they are RAID arrays. (I can get you a 1T usb/eSATA drive for $150, but thats not the point.)
I mean I'm not talking about storage capacity, I'm talking about data integrity.
Let's say that at 22:00 I feel great because I just got 1TB HDD.
Well at 22:05 my HDD fails. How much storage capacity do I have now? 0
As they say it's not the size, what matters is reliability.
(again I agree, if you can afford it go for an eSATA RAID, but it won't be portable)
To answer pilotBob, RAID it's important because HDD do fail, and when they do... well, you are gonna whish you had backups.
About S3, well maybe I'm wrong but I think Jungle Disk's encryption it's optional.
Plus amazon is an online store, and if it ever comes to it, they'll prioritize their store over your data.
But to be honest my main concern it's the price.
(remember what they did with our ebooks, we, final customers...)
on the other hand, EMC (which owns Mozy) does nothing but data protection for big corps. Why take chances?
just my $0.02. (not even a GB for Amazon...)