[AccessD] Unraid

LOL.  Oh.

Naw, all of my data fits on a 5 mbyte drive.  ;)  Well... it *used to* fit on a 5 mb drive... in 1986.

I was looking at my photo directory (11 *thousand* photos) and my software source stuff (250 
*thousand* files) and came away just shaking my head.  Those two sets of files are "only" about 300 
GB.  My video is pushing 1.2 TB.

So yea, 50c is probably just about right.

Actually I got Samsung 1 TB drives for $55.  I could only buy 3 at that price but I went for it.

I would be moving to the bigger drives - the 2 TB and 3 TB drives but their failure rate is pushing 
20%.  How do you sell a product where 20% of them die?  I know I'm not buying!

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 10/21/2010 9:55 AM, David McAfee wrote:
> Because I think you meant to say TB instead of GB :)
>
> Sent from my Droid phone.
> On Oct 21, 2010 4:25 AM, "jwcolby"<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>  wrote:
>> 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/
>>>>
>>>> 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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