[dba-VB] Unraid

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
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