If I have the choice I wont use anything other than zfs its in freenas
aand hopefully debian
IanW - who runs nas4free on a usb stick to boot an old HP storage server
with 4 2TB disks using ZFS
checkout
Becoming a ZFS Ninja - Part1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-KesLwobps
On 26/02/2014 14:59, WayneS wrote:
> At 2/24/2014 01:46 PM, Paul wrote:
>
>> My problem with NAS (and I could easily build one using FreeNAS and an
>> inexpensive tower) is that the online backup services like Carbonite and
>> Backblaze won't back up a NAS share (makes sense - those services are
>> licensed per computer, and a NAS share could be 15 computers in one house).
>>
>> So, I'm going with a RAID5 box attached with Firewire800 which will provide
>> some redunancy and will be backed up with Backblaze.
> What about Amazon? They just charge for the storage used.
>
> I finally created my own backup, after following my sons lead. It has grown
> from 4 drives to now include an LSI SAS controller and 9 WD Red 3Tb drives in
> Raid 6 on a Debian server (21Tb total). It can hold a lot of photos and
> backups. Raid 5 felt too weak. My son has been having a lot of failures, some
> due to the Sata cables, and now possibly a failing controller. I have had
> mixed results with Sata cables over the years.
>
>
>
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