K
Kurgen
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...that is, nothing more complex than a net-accessible unit to house two drives, with identical content, managed manually by me over the net'. I've had some painful nightmares with RAID-controlled mirroring in the past, where syncing goes bananas, or completely loses the plot, with file discrepancies going unreported etc, etc, so I now tolerate the drudgery of sorting the duplication transfers myself.
Basically, I have 2 x 1TB SATAII drives, currently living in a bare-bones net'ed PC, which is too bulky and noisy, hence my current mission. They're already populated with approx 600GB of identical data, and I want to stick 'em into a NAS box, connected to a router (or non-DHCP-served static if poss, as the rest of my net' is currently), and that's it. A dumb file box.
Any recommendations for make, model etc?
Also, I've read that certain (all?) NAS'es use a proprietary file format, i.e. non FAT/32/NTFS? Is this so, and if so, will I have to wipe the drives and start the (laborious) compilation process again?
Phew...
I hope this isn't too much of an ask, considering it's my first post here, but I'm desperate to find a new "home" for my two big boys, before someone accidentally sits a 2KG magnet on top of them.
Thanks in advance,
K.
Basically, I have 2 x 1TB SATAII drives, currently living in a bare-bones net'ed PC, which is too bulky and noisy, hence my current mission. They're already populated with approx 600GB of identical data, and I want to stick 'em into a NAS box, connected to a router (or non-DHCP-served static if poss, as the rest of my net' is currently), and that's it. A dumb file box.
Any recommendations for make, model etc?
Also, I've read that certain (all?) NAS'es use a proprietary file format, i.e. non FAT/32/NTFS? Is this so, and if so, will I have to wipe the drives and start the (laborious) compilation process again?
Phew...
I hope this isn't too much of an ask, considering it's my first post here, but I'm desperate to find a new "home" for my two big boys, before someone accidentally sits a 2KG magnet on top of them.
Thanks in advance,
K.