[AccessD] Unraid

LOL, where is this coming from?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 10/20/2010 9:31 PM, Steve Erbach wrote:
> 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/
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>> 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
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