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I'm really kind of torn on what to do with my storage. Right now I've got a very old and very loud full tower system running Vista (I was in the WHS beta but got hit with the data corruption bug) with 7 IDE HDs crammed in it for a total of 3TB or so. I use it as my fileserver, FTP server, and for SAB. I have two Windows 7 machines (desktop/laptop), plus XBMC and an Xbox 360 that stream video. Should I bother trying to find a proper server solution so that I can run FTP/SAB/etc off of it, or should I just go with one of the two-slot NAS boxes with 1.5TB drives and upgrade the disks as drive capacity increases, and then run FTP/SAB off my desktop? That Chenbro/Storbox solution looks beautiful, but I bet it costs a pretty penny to get setup.
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Fitret posted:I need some advice on how to best fix my current storage situation. Right now I've got a WHS, and I absolutely love all of the features, but I no longer trust it. I know back before PP1 they had data corruption issues, so I waited until they did a redesign to adopt and everything has gone swimmingly since then - until last week. Last week, I got a notification that about 15 files had become corrupt. I talked to the WHS guys and it seems that my data is lost. They think it might be due to a hard drive that's about to fail, but I've got redundancy enabled on the folder, and guess what - my files are still gone! I'm not sure what the point of redundancy is if when a single hard drive goes bad, you still lose files. As someone who had the data corruption issues back after RTM, and then fled far away from WHS but was secretly considering trying it again, I am very, very sad to read this. Keep us posted as to what you end up doing.
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Aug 22, 2009 16:40
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Because of this, I want to move away from WHS as the method of protecting my data.
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I wish there was a good source for up to date out-of-the-box NAS review roundups. QNAP vs ReadyNAS vs Drobo, that kind of thing. I'm not feeling up to rolling my own, but I'm really torn between what's available.
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Sep 10, 2009 05:32
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I'm torn between getting a cheaper qnap 2-bay 219 (and paying a premium for large hard drives) or paying the extra $250 for a 4-bay 419, so I can buy cheaper hard drives.
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Sep 11, 2009 03:21
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Modern Pragmatist posted:I have a computer running a hardware-based Raid-1 configuration with two 150 GB drives. I have two new 500 GB drives that I would like to use instead. If it's a media/backup server, I'd probably just 1: Remove 150GB drives and build new array with 500GB disks 2: Add one of the 150GB drives to the system via SATA or USB and copy all the files to the new array.
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Sep 12, 2009 00:03
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HERAK posted:Windows Home Server you probably want to have a look at this thread as well. a home server would be more versatile than a NAS and would have a far larger storage capacity. I would really like to try WHS again but I am still terrified of the data corruption issue coming back after I lost a ton of data on the retail edition.
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