Hi, Great site BTW, been reading for a good few weeks now. I've checked out most of the articles and forums and have learnt a lot along the way. But I'm now more confused than ever, about what I should get ? Ideally I need to have this hardware sorted in the next 7 - 10 working days.
My requirements are :
Over the next few months I will be developing at home for a commercial venture our own), and so speed / access for dev and for running an the Company site (at least for a while) is a consideration. In addition to the above requirements, I'll also be after running SQL Server and a few other custom server processes. I had planned for all of this to be running on a Home Build Server, with 2 serial disks running Raid1.
I have read this Smart SOHOs Don't Do RAID). Which was very illuminating, and has put me off spending loads of money, for something I probably just wanted (a 4 bay NAS), but didn't really need.
I've shortlisted the Synology DS207+ (@£200), or the Synology DS209+ (@£340). I cannot see exactly why there is a £140 difference between the two - and whether I would ever notice it ?
But I have seen the VIA ARTiGO A2000 and wondered if this could fit all my needs ? My concern is that instead of doing all I need, it misses out on all counts. Does anyone have a view on this device - good, or bad ?
I am completely open to suggestions as to hardware recommendations to sort this out. As there is a mix of personal and business to my requirements, and maybe they cannot all be met on one device ?
Hopefully anyone who persevered this far, isn't too bored, or confused and with any luck can help.
cheers
Aaron
My requirements are :
- Access Control
- iTunes Server
- PHP interpreter and MySQL database
- Torrent server (Downnload client)
- BYOD (ideally)
- Ability to schedule backup to external eSATA disk / online storage.
- Continued running in the event of disk failure. Mirroring would be ideal, Ineed the data available, not the most disk space available.
- Share out the usual massive photo collection / music / docs
- Max disc space required 1Tb. Max.
- Access via Mac/Windows at the moment, but is likely to be Linux as well in coming months - due to imminent netbook purchase.
- Secure remote access
Over the next few months I will be developing at home for a commercial venture our own), and so speed / access for dev and for running an the Company site (at least for a while) is a consideration. In addition to the above requirements, I'll also be after running SQL Server and a few other custom server processes. I had planned for all of this to be running on a Home Build Server, with 2 serial disks running Raid1.
I have read this Smart SOHOs Don't Do RAID). Which was very illuminating, and has put me off spending loads of money, for something I probably just wanted (a 4 bay NAS), but didn't really need.
I've shortlisted the Synology DS207+ (@£200), or the Synology DS209+ (@£340). I cannot see exactly why there is a £140 difference between the two - and whether I would ever notice it ?
But I have seen the VIA ARTiGO A2000 and wondered if this could fit all my needs ? My concern is that instead of doing all I need, it misses out on all counts. Does anyone have a view on this device - good, or bad ?
I am completely open to suggestions as to hardware recommendations to sort this out. As there is a mix of personal and business to my requirements, and maybe they cannot all be met on one device ?
Hopefully anyone who persevered this far, isn't too bored, or confused and with any luck can help.
cheers
Aaron
