If you want a really good backup plus redundancy then look at the Readynas drives. You can pick up really cheap ones on ebay ready populated and either run them as raid 5, Raid x or raid 0 (if you are brave).
I have two of them and you can set up a NAS to NAS background copy autosync for both Nas's if you want. Synology Nas boxes are excellent but pricey BUT they do the DNLA multi-media stuff better than the Readnyas as they have much more on board processing to render video output etc. As for Drobo, I have two Drobo boxes.... great when the work, but they fail regularly and are SLOW. You can have them free if you want. I certainly wouldn't trust them. Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Sent: 25 June 2014 16:04 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: [NF] External HD storage for backups Well, the Western Digital drive that I bought 10 years ago is starting to show signs of failure according to the System Event log. Time to look for its replacement. I recall hearing about Drobo some years ago. Nice redundancy built into it, iirc. What do you guys use? Yes, the cloud is an option too, and I do put backups on my website in a private folder, but I like a quick local external backup copy available too. Thanks, --Mike [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/18725b8cd2d5d247873a2baf401d4ab22a520...@ex2010-a-fpl.fpl.LOCAL ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
