jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Oct 20 05:11:49 CDT 2010
NewEgg had them on sale for $55, maximum of 3 per customer. That makes a good start for a NAS. I have pieces and parts laying around the office so the rest of the box will just be spare parts. I do have to buy the UnRaid license though. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com On 10/19/2010 10:18 PM, Doug Steele wrote: > Three 1GB drives? What did that set you back, $2.99? > > Sorry, I couldn't resist :) > > Doug > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:13 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 >> www.ColbyConsulting.com >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-VB mailing list >> dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb >> http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-VB mailing list > dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >