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Post by whatalark on Oct 8, 2022 12:37:56 GMT
My NAS died some while back. For replacement I'm looking at Synology DS220J with x2 WD Redplus 2TB. Works with Linux and there's a phone app. Mainly for storing music. Any reasons not to ? Other than I probably shouldn't be buying it in the first place as there are more important things I should be spending money on.
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Post by whatalark on Oct 8, 2022 12:43:42 GMT
I could save money by having one bay. But then I'd be in the position I'm in now, old one died and I've lost all its contents. Am I right in thinking that with 2 bays the data is saved to both, so if one fails I'll still have access to the other drive.
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Post by MrTiddles on Oct 8, 2022 12:57:45 GMT
I know nothing of such matters, Mr Lark. Perhaps Sheep or Crank can assist.
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Post by crankcaller on Oct 8, 2022 13:17:13 GMT
Depends on your Raid setup - but yes it can work like that. The Synology will also backup to the cloud over night as an extra safety feature. Amazon glacier is very cheap.
Someone here has a Synology - possibly two folk
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Post by crankcaller on Oct 8, 2022 13:17:42 GMT
Sheep and rolling?
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Post by whatalark on Oct 8, 2022 13:42:59 GMT
Ok.... I've had a read about RAID. It might be that what I want is a single bay NAS and then back up to a USB hard drive.
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Post by Chumbles on Oct 8, 2022 14:39:56 GMT
Ok.... I've had a read about RAID. It might be that what I want is a single bay NAS and then back up to a USB hard drive. Pretty much my setup, (but I'm paranoid, so have an 8Tb file PC, an old HP Gen-8* so have 2 back ups of all data). But as with all such, it relies on doing the back ups regularly... I have 2+Tb of audiobooks alone, so this all takes time. Hmm, I'd better do one this weekend... |
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Post by Chumbles on Oct 8, 2022 14:43:06 GMT
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Oct 8, 2022 14:44:50 GMT
Ok.... I've had a read about RAID. It might be that what I want is a single bay NAS and then back up to a USB hard drive. Pretty much my setup, (but I'm paranoid, so have an 8Tb file PC, an old HP Gen-8* so have 2 back ups of all data). But as with all such, it relies on doing the back ups regularly... I have 2+Tb of audiobooks alone, so this all takes time. Hmm, I'd better do one this weekend...
8 TB on Amazon prime for less than £200 at the mo. (price dropped on most). edit edit edit  |
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Post by MrTiddles on Oct 8, 2022 14:58:13 GMT
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Post by MrTiddles on Oct 8, 2022 15:00:01 GMT
Pretty much my setup, (but I'm paranoid, so have an 8Tb file PC, an old HP Gen-8* so have 2 back ups of all data). But as with all such, it relies on doing the back ups regularly... I have 2+Tb of audiobooks alone, so this all takes time. Hmm, I'd better do one this weekend... 8 TB on Amazon prime for less than £200 at the mo. (price dropped on most). If any of you haven't got the internet, I suggest you follow Kane's advice (but not his editing skills). |
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Post by Tuffers on Oct 8, 2022 16:46:08 GMT
Morning dweebs
Went for a nice walk in the autumnal sunshiiiiiiine earlier, just a t-shirt was needed. Global warming my arse. Along the way I took in the Bhaji shop and picked up 3 onion bhajis and 3 veg samosas. Next up, the butchers (chicken breasts and bacon). Finally the co-op (booze). My rucksack was like a soldiers bergen for the walk home. I now have a chicken curry on the hob.
Gamez. Going to carry on with King of amalur later. Enjoyed it last night. Although just before switching it off I found a mine. Had a quick peek, but decided to leave it for another time. I'm sure nothing dangerous is waiting for me down there.
OTTM, think I might have a corn or something on the underside of my foot. Feels like I've permanently got a stone in my sock/shoe when I walk. Pretty painful actually. Oh well, I had a good innings.
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Post by Chumbles on Oct 8, 2022 16:57:24 GMT
Pretty much my setup, (but I'm paranoid, so have an 8Tb file PC, an old HP Gen-8* so have 2 back ups of all data). But as with all such, it relies on doing the back ups regularly... I have 2+Tb of audiobooks alone, so this all takes time. Hmm, I'd better do one this weekend... 8 TB on Amazon prime for less than £200 at the mo. (price dropped on most). edit edit edit Really? Really? LINK??? Reconditioned on Amazon Marketplace, with NO discs = 0tb there's one available at a grand... and it has Windows 2003 Server - which reached end-of-life in 2015 and is unsupported. I moved mine onto Windows 10 and setup each of the 4 x 2tbs as persistent network drives. There is a diskless Celeron one on e-Bay for £259 from alexey_grachev 😎... |
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Post by Chumbles on Oct 8, 2022 17:49:10 GMT
muffrat: if you have an old PC, you can repurpose it to act as a NAS or File server... I got the HP-Gen 8 because it fitted the physical space that I had. It was clearance stock from eBuyer, reused some drives... I later bought the 4 x 4tb driver and w10 stuff etc. If you're used to PCs and understand how they are put together, it's only time you need and relatively small amounts of cash. You can do this. My box was in place of a 4bay 4 x 2tb Synology, which was a fucker to administer and I realized after a while that I was not doing back ups because of that. I sold the Synology and reused the 2tb drives, upgrading later as my audiobooks stuff would require splitting across 2 discs. Just punt around on t'internet... here's Mr Potato Head to explain his version of how to do it...
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Post by Felice Landry on Oct 8, 2022 18:01:23 GMT
Sirloin steak with Stilton sauce, jacket potato, mushrooms and peas for dinner.
<edit>We get the M&S 1lb steak which a couple of years ago was £10, now £14.40!
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Post by Felice Landry on Oct 8, 2022 18:25:22 GMT
Just gets better.
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 8, 2022 18:31:08 GMT
I have a 4 bay Synology NAS. Though only 2 bays are currently used.
I use it as a music server. It is excellent.
I have about 16 TB on it the back up is other HDs
I am thinking of getting 2 more 10 TB disks and maybe an 18 TB disk to replace an 8TB disk. But the prices are astronomical at the moment.
I would recommend as much storage as possible.
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Post by MrTiddles on Oct 8, 2022 19:07:22 GMT
My flat's got even less equipment than Shenguin 's underpants. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 8, 2022 19:11:43 GMT
RollingEscargot.
Commiserations.
That didn't sound good.
Did you go? At least it isn't a long way home
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 8, 2022 19:56:09 GMT
Killed it?
Like Dundee United brutalizing Aberdeen.
A bad business.
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Post by Shenguin on Oct 8, 2022 19:58:01 GMT
I have a 2-bay Synology. I like it. It was fiddly to set up to get everything to work, but it seems functional and reliable.
You might want to consider getting two different hard drives, or even repurposing an old one and combining with a new one. That way they're less likely to fail near simultaneously.
Synologys can also be set up to back up to each other, so you could use two 1-bay drives in different locations to act as a raid array.
If you're into that sort of weird shit, I understand they can also act as remote file servers, web servers, email servers etc.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Oct 8, 2022 20:46:20 GMT
You are all crazy. Just buy a subscription to Amazon Music instead.
And yet when it comes to gaming you all play on those silly plastic boxes.
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Post by crankcaller on Oct 8, 2022 21:01:18 GMT
Amazon music doesn't have 500hrs of Neil Young bootlegs and outakes, so Sheep is oot.
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Post by Chumbles on Oct 8, 2022 21:02:13 GMT
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