| [Other] NAS question: Currently using a Dlink DNS-323 NAS with 2 2TB HDD's mirrored. I have about 4TB of media & software archived on DVD's and want to consolidate to one NAS. My brother recommended looking into a Drobo storage unit.
»www.drobo.com/products/professio···robo-fs/
The Drobo FS looked very interesting, and was wonder if there was anything else that compares to it for around the same price. Only thing that discourages me from this product is that there is no web interface. You must use their dashboard software.
Article about Beyond RAID:
»www.techrepublic.com/blog/datace···ies/2286
Drobo FS Capacity Calculator:
»www.drobo.com/products/capacity-···robo5Bay
My goal in end is run the 2 original 2TB HDDs from my DNS-323 and buy 3 more 3TB HDDs giving me a total of 6.35TB of redundant storage. |
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 tobyTroy Mcclure
join:2001-11-13
Seattle, WA | The bad reviews are what stopped me getting a drobo, that and the prices. When they break, they really break and lose all your data, I didn't want that.
I got a QNAP NAS, they're very capable. |
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Reviews:
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to jjwaldick
Synology seems to have good reviews at Newegg. Be aware that most NAS makers only support drives that have passed their internal testing. Since you want to reuse the drives you have, make sure that they're supported by the device that you decide on.
Drobo is pretty proud of their stuff. Seems pretty overpriced to me, but then I just want a place to store data. I'm usually not too concerned with all the extra features most NAS devices come with these days.
Off topic - Other than the coolness factor, what is the attraction of copying DVD's to a hard drive? Do you watch them over and over enough that you need them available without walking over to the DVD player and inserting a disk? We have lots of DVD's that the family has collected over the years, yet most have never been watched more than once. I'm just curious if we're atypical media consumers!  We do usually have 300-500GB of data on the DVR PC so we aren't Luddites, but I don't see a need to have all the DVD's a keypress away on the HTPC also. What am I missing?  |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:5
 ·Frontier FiOS
| said by HarryH3:Off topic - Other than the coolness factor, what is the attraction of copying DVD's to a hard drive? Do you watch them over and over enough that you need them available without walking over to the DVD player and inserting a disk? We have lots of DVD's that the family has collected over the years, yet most have never been watched more than once. I'm just curious if we're atypical media consumers! We do usually have 300-500GB of data on the DVR PC so we aren't Luddites, but I don't see a need to have all the DVD's a keypress away on the HTPC also. What am I missing? Why not? For the price of a 1TB drive, you can rip 500-1000 DVDs. If you just do disc images, you're looking at 100-200 images. They are instantly available on any TV in the home. And if you are looking for a particular genre, actor/actress, etc it's usually easy to bring up depending on what interface you have. |
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 KilroyPremium,MVM
join:2002-11-21
Ann Arbor, MI | reply to HarryH3
said by HarryH3:Off topic - Other than the coolness factor, what is the attraction of copying DVD's to a hard drive? My drive directory is always in alphabetical order and I don't have to worry about the disks being damaged. If alphabetical isn't enough I can sort them however I want. I can rip my disks and then put my disks in off site climate controled storage. I can access them from any of my computers. The wife and I are watching old television shows and will watch three or four shows in a sitting, but rarely more than a couple of one show. I don't have to have three and four boxed sets sitting out and keep swapping disks. There are tons of advantages, but those are the big ones.
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When will the people realize that with DRM they aren't purchasing anything? |
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