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askmecharlie

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Dear All,

I need to have a storage for storing media and mp3 & Videos, I have recently used buffalo 3tb raid mirror, but in vain, need advice on the best product available in market.

Storage 3,4, t.b or more on mirroring, so that recovery is easy.

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Charlie
 
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Well, a few good questions:

1) Must it be a commercially created solution? Or do you want to roll your own?
2) How are your tech skills and Linux skills?
3) How much redundancy do you need?
4) How much space do you need?

Right now I'm running a FreeNAS based system, 10TB (5x2Tb in a RAID5) on a basic box (Phenom II x 2, 4Gb ram) and it's been rock solid for years now without any issues. The FreeNAS OS is based off of FreeBSD and has been extensively tested and offers quite a few different redundancy options including ZFS support in the latest iterations.

Another choice is to run a Linux server box, if your Linux skills are sufficient you can set up a similar set of shares manually (which is one of the advantages of FreeNAS - it...
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Well, a few good questions:

1) Must it be a commercially created solution? Or do you want to roll your own?
2) How are your tech skills and Linux skills?
3) How much redundancy do you need?
4) How much space do you need?

Right now I'm running a FreeNAS based system, 10TB (5x2Tb in a RAID5) on a basic box (Phenom II x 2, 4Gb ram) and it's been rock solid for years now without any issues. The FreeNAS OS is based off of FreeBSD and has been extensively tested and offers quite a few different redundancy options including ZFS support in the latest iterations.

Another choice is to run a Linux server box, if your Linux skills are sufficient you can set up a similar set of shares manually (which is one of the advantages of FreeNAS - it simplifies things immensely).
 
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askmecharlie

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Well, I need a Solution from an international product which is easy to handle, readymade like a synology,wd etc... i need 4 t.b plus, and with a mirror backup, so that if an h.d.d fails inn the device, any point the device provider should replace the data with the h.d.d.



 
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A mirror(RAID1) and a backup are 2 different things.
if you were having data loss problems with a 2-Bay Buffolo Enclosure In RAID1, then what you need is a second comparable system to do a proper backup.
 
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I have to agree, RAID is not the same as backup. Even a mirror system can become corrupted all at once in many cases. I've had to recover several RAID 1 arrays where all drives had filesystem corruption.

As far as a device is concerned, go with a Synology. The software is pretty much the same on all Synology devices, you're basically just picking out your hardware based on your storage and throughput needs.
 
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