On 2009-10-27 19:57 , Doug Franklin wrote:
Have any of the PDML faithful tried using Network Attached Storage (NAS) for their photo archive?
if you have a machine that is always on, you probably don't need Network Attached Storage -- cheaper, and potentially faster, to just hang some drives off that machine
i do this, because i have other things besides storage that i keep online 24/7 (FileMaker Server and my iTunes library, specifically)
my attached storage is in a dual-drive FireWire enclosure sold by OWC (macsales.com); it's very quiet; the fan is high quality and there's enough isolation in the enclosure that the loudest things are the soft clunks when the heads move; by contrast, i also have a Western Digital dual-drive enclosure that i'm loathe to turn on because of the horrible fan
for Mac users where a NAS does makes sense, a decent approach is a Time Capsule, which combines a wireless/gigabit ethernet router with a hard drive; i have a 1TB unit which does automatic backups of my partner's laptop
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