- Feb 11, 2013
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I'm currently using a couple of external hard drives for backup purposes. One of them just had its fifth birthday, and now the other one (two years old) is throwing up some read errors periodically in HD Sentinel. This worries me a bit, and I'm thinking about replacing them both with either a NAS box or a little RAID box like this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816111208
I could also theoretically create a RAID on desktop PC (I've plenty of free SATA slots), but I'm worried about recovery if the entire tower gets fried in a freak accident.
What would you recommend? Complicating matters is that I don't have much space to play with, and my wife doesn't want to devote much more room to computer equipment. That means I could, at best, fit a mini-ITX NAS box in here, and that's pushing it. She's also averse to spending much on whatever solution I develop.
Oh, and am I right that, regardless of what RAID system I design, I want to use something like WD Red drive for it?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816111208
I could also theoretically create a RAID on desktop PC (I've plenty of free SATA slots), but I'm worried about recovery if the entire tower gets fried in a freak accident.
What would you recommend? Complicating matters is that I don't have much space to play with, and my wife doesn't want to devote much more room to computer equipment. That means I could, at best, fit a mini-ITX NAS box in here, and that's pushing it. She's also averse to spending much on whatever solution I develop.
Oh, and am I right that, regardless of what RAID system I design, I want to use something like WD Red drive for it?
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