Bought one of these for £1. (That's around $2)
Intend to upgrade with 4 x 4TB drives.
The existing firmware only has options for Raid 1, 5, 10
wat do?
Would this be a reasonable backup solution?
raid is still not a backup
Its closer to a dollar you britkek
Enjoy your economy shitting the bed.
>>52112246
He's not using raid as a backup you fucking retard, he's backing up his shit to it
>>52112280
Barely.
£1 would cost closer to 2 of your dollarinos if you were to go out and buy something.
>>52112246
I have working copies on my machines that would back up to the raid array periodically.
Yes the array would be offsite at my parents house.
bump?
>>52112440
xe.com
£1 = $1.48
Of course it's always fluctuating so it might be a bit lower or higher by the time you read this.
>>52113056
Go out and buy a £1.
Let me know how much you pay for it including charges/commission etc.
Alternatively, go forex trading. See how much you actually pay for £1.
t. Moshe Goldberg
>>52112215
Don't use raid5 with large slow disks. Just asking for it to fuck up during a rebuild.
>>52113224
We'll seeing as I got the station for cheap, I was going to splash out on some HGST 4TB's @7200rpm.
Make it super mechanically reliable and use either Raid 5 or 10.
What do you think?
The only thing I'm concerned about is that the raid card in the actual station might die (no idea how likely it is). I wonder if I'd be able to rebuild from disk if that was the case, or if fucking the raid card would fuck the entire array.
>>52112280
We've got a pretty good idea about what's to come, been watching you Amerifags floundering for quite a few years now.
>>52113078
Go out and buy $2 for £1 since that's what you claim the value to be. It's going to be even harder than buying £1 for $1.48.
Where can anyone go out and buy a Buffalo Terrastation II TS-HTGL for £1? I'm betting finding someone to exchange $1.48 for £1 will be thousands of times easier.
In summary, you're being a 'tard.
>>52113441
Like I said, don't use RAID5 with large slow disks. If one of those fails and you try to rebuild the array the chances of it fucking up are like 75%. RAID1 would be your best bet for a backup device. You need reliability not speed.
>>52113723
the OP said:
>That's around $2
>around $2
Do you understand how to round?
Shut the fuck up.
Sell it and buy a HP Microserver
>>52113989
Right. I see what you're getting at. Thank you.
Rebuilding the array and having a disc fail during rebuild with a distributed parity would just end up being a catastrophic failure of the entire array.
Understood.
Mirroring with no parity would be less space efficient, but overall safer. And for a backup, reliability and redundancy are key. Hence Raid 1.
Is there any reason not to use Raid 1+0?
>>52112215
where did you buy it?
>>52114142
From the firm I work for.
They fell for the cloud storage meme.
The raid array on this terrastation had failed, but I managed to pull one of the drives and rebuild the array in RAID 5. Recovered all the data (useless data). Essentially the thing is fine, but I had to bust it open because some genius lost the key.
It currently has a laughable 4x250GB hard drives in it. I'm planning on replacing with 4 x 4TB
They also back up onto tapes But ...They're selling one of their older tape drives for £100. I'm kinda tempted.
>>52112215
Fuck the OEM firmware, install Debian on it.
>>52114320
Can I?
I was looking for a fucking method to do that a while ago but 10mins of googling was just full of useless retards asking how to reset their passwords.
Debian would be perfect, or even if I could ghetto-rig freenas onto it.
The OEM FW is supreme shit though, I'll tell you that right now.
