At 09:42 AM 9/17/2010, you wrote:
1st, this is for home use. But I frequently work on "work" stuff
at home, so I do consider a lot of my "data" to be critical to
me...but I have a lot of it spread between multiple computers (work and home).
If you aren't talking about TBs of stored streaming video, or
services you need to run from a server, and your primary concern is
data access, and security, then it is going to be hard to beat
Dropbox. It is a online service where you install an app, it creates
a folder in my documents or where ever you want to put it called
Dropbox and then it continually syncs that folder with all your other
computers that have your Dropbox account installed, as well as
providing a secure website where you can log in and retrieve your
data. So your data is on any computers with internet access where you
have installed dropbox as well as being in the cloud. It is seamless,
install and forget. It doesn't get in the way, doesn't have any
issues, it is the best, most useful app I have seen in a decade. I
have been using it for over a year now and not a single issue or complaint.
There is all sorts of cool things you can do with it. Put a Truecypt
drive in your dropbox if your worried about security. There is a
public folder you can make available to others. You can create a
folder that you share with other specified peoples dropbox... this is
how I transfer data back and forth with my partner, and my sisters,
each in a private folder. Perfect for people who don't understand
what a upload is. It can install on a Iphone, a droid, a blackberry.
You get two GBs free and 100GB costs only 100 bucks a year. If you
aren't streaming multimedia, or running other services, then it isn't
worth the cost and hassle of a server, and of course if your house
burns down you loose your server but not your Dropbox. Your data is
always safe and available.
Here is a referral link that will get us both an extra 250megs free,
,give the free one a try and I think you will be impressed.
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE0NDEwOTE5
So, what would I like to do?
1) store all of my stuff in one place....so I would need RAID and/or backup.
2) be able to stream music to any PC in the house, including phones
and slate computers (future)
3) be able to download stuff from/to my TIVO to/from it. (the TIVO
files do get big and I really don't need to back those up); but I
want my TIVOs to "see" this server.
4) sync folders between laptop and server (via wireless network)
Ultimately, it would be nice to just store all my stuff on it and
have it protected and backed up. Then get to it all from over
network connection from any PC.
I don't need to stream movies. Though neat to do, I can get by without that.
Thanks.
On 9/17/2010 11:15 AM, Richard Quilhot wrote:
RAID would be recommended, if you will be storing critical data and need
faster I/O responses.
The backup included with Win Server will be the bare basics, I would go with
a more robust product like Backup Exec.
The bigger question is what do you want it to do?
Rick Q
quilh...@gmail.com
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Anthony Q. Martin<amar...@charter.net>wrote:
So, no one here builds their on file servers? Or, are people just using
NAS devices?
On 9/14/2010 8:00 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
I've got an extra PC here with a Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3GHz with 2GB ram in
a NZXT case. It's got a rather low end mobo but it does have 1Gbit
networking.
I'm thinking of turning this into a file server rather than buying a NAS.
I'm thinking of Windows Server 2008 since I mainly have
Windows 7 running
here.
Other than backups, what else can I get such a system to do? Does Windows
Server include all of the necessary software or would I have to buy
something else for streaming, etc. I assume it has a network backup tool.
Would some kind of raid configuration be wise for this? Pros& Cons?
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