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    Best Practices? Migrating from WHS, need advice what to buy

    Sheer luck and availability at my local store when I purchased. I wanted to have a couple different types of drives (i.e.: tried to select from different batches, different vendors). As luck would have it, one of the retail boxes that was labeled 7K2000 was actually a 7K3000 drive inside. Went...
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    Best Practices? Migrating from WHS, need advice what to buy

    Thanks, Tim! Quick update -- I got sick and tired of waiting for the shipment from Amazon to arrive. I can't believe how long it was taking just to ship! Not impressed at all. Anyway, while I was waiting I had more time to do some research on the ReadyNAS and I got cold feet. The more reviews...
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    Best Practices? Migrating from WHS, need advice what to buy

    For the record, this is what I decided to do: 1) We will transition from WHS over the course of this year to TWO NAS servers... 1 ReadyNAS 4-bay and 1 Synology 4- or 5-bay. 2) I just purchased the ReadyNAS Ultra 4, looking forward for it to arrive. I went with ReadyNAS first since it has...
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    Is Enterprize-class drive worth the price over consumer drive?

    Some more great reads! Thank you!
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    Is Enterprize-class drive worth the price over consumer drive?

    Thank you again, good reads! I had read the Google study a while back, but it was a good refresher and the response was new, with many things to think about. Basically, I'm now convinced more than ever that RAID-5 is inadequate for large consumer drives. The rebuild period is too risky. Of...
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    Is Enterprize-class drive worth the price over consumer drive?

    Thank you, guys! Much appreciated. The application for this is for a very small business, and the server (and drives) will store EVERYTHING, and it's all important stuff... so ideally, I should probably choose enterprise-grade drives. Also, ideally, I should have two servers. :) So this is a...
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    Is Enterprize-class drive worth the price over consumer drive?

    Enterprise vs Consumer hard drives? Is it worth it? Hi -- I'm about to pull the trigger on a new NAS, and I'm trying to decide if the much higher cost of enterprise-class drives is worth it over the cost of consumer-grade drives? For example, the Seagate 2TB ES ST32000644NS drive costs about...
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    Should I Go For Whs? Or Nas? Or Freenas?

    What you're describing, for the most part, is very much along the lines of WHS. I put together a nice machine just for WHS and it can do most of that (and probably all of that with Add-ins). However, I'm slowly transitioning out of WHS because it appears pretty much a dead-end system without...
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    Best Practices? Migrating from WHS, need advice what to buy

    Thanks, Tim! I checked out the iomega offerings but I'm honestly scared off by the lousy reviews. However, the more I read about the ReadyNAS Atom-based units, I think I've found the ideal combination for what I need. The extraordinary backup capabilities really shine, and make them much more...
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    Best Practices? Migrating from WHS, need advice what to buy

    Quick update: I've been reading the manuals of various NAS devices, and I've been very surprised by the flexibility of the backup feature of the ReadyNAS devices. Does anyone have any thoughts/experience on the ReadyNAS backup capabilities? How stable, reliable they are? All those features are...
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    Best Practices? Migrating from WHS, need advice what to buy

    Thanks again, Tim! Your help here has given much food for thought! Very much appreciated and I owe you a drink! ;)
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    Best Practices? Migrating from WHS, need advice what to buy

    Thank you again, Tim! I agree completely on the RAID backup issue, etc... I will widen my scope to look at other vendors and look at Netgear. You're right that I won't be using most of the features of Synology and QNAP -- I had just narrowed it down to them due to good reviews. I preferred...
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    Best Practices? Migrating from WHS, need advice what to buy

    More thoughts, possible scenarios below. Would love any thoughts/recommendations. Option 1: a) Keep WHS for computer backups. b) Buy faster single-bay or dual-bay NAS for "Active" projects (1-2TB is enough) - Possible models: Synology DS111, DS211, DS211+ c) Buy slower dual-bay or...
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    Best Practices? Migrating from WHS, need advice what to buy

    Thanks, Tim! Storage needs are: 2-3TB for daily backups of all networked computers. I'm okay with slower access speed for backups. (Also wondering about a good, intelligent incremental backup solution. WHS uses incremental, single instance storage for backups, so I might need more space for...
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    Best Practices? Migrating from WHS, need advice what to buy

    I posted this over at the Synology forum but have not yet received a response. Perhaps some people here in this forum could help me out? ---- Hi -- I currently have a very small business where we have a Windows Home Server (WHS) acting as the main backup server and fileserver. We also use...
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