[AccessD] Unraid

John,

>> I got a good deal on three 1GB Samsung drives the other day <<

I'll bet!  50 cents each, eh?

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI


On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:13 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> I got a good deal on three 1GB Samsung drives the other day, and as a result I am about to launch an
> UnRaid NAS.
>
> http://lime-technology.com/
>
> I currently use Windows Home Server but have never been happy with all aspects of what it is and
> does.  I absolutely love the way that it backs up computers, with the sector copy / compare.  Cool
> technology.  Unfortunately my experience has seen an abysmal restore scenario.  I have had restores
> work, I have had restores fail to work.  When they refuse to restore I have just utterly failed to
> force that restore to ever work.
>
> I have the same experience with the backup.  9 of 10 of my machines restore faithfully, the other
> absolutely refuses to see the WHS server.
>
> Backups have to be 100% absolutely reliable and restores have to be 100% absolutely reliable or you
> are rolling dice when you do your backups.  WHS has never had that 100% reliability for me.
>
> So I am about to take down my WHS in favor of an UnRaid NAS and plain old backup software.
>
> We shall see how this goes but it certainly looks promising.
>
> --
> John W. Colby