Hi,
I have always been told by the IT Company that supports our server that you must have at least Raid 1 along with a form of backup been tape or an External drive.
So I have been looking for a NAS to work as a Central storage for two computers, keep in mind the NAS must have a USB port for an External Backup and the NAS also has to have RAID 1.
The trouble is I can't find to many NAS units that have RAID 1.
Western digital has the My Book world edition (Single Drive) Seagate has Freeagent (Single Drive) and Maxtor has the Central Axis (Single Drive) the only one I have found is the Lacie 2big, which looked great until I read reviews on it, and it seems there are a lot of disappointed Lacie customers.
I have found the Synology and QNAP NAS products, but these require you to purchase the drives separately which gets to expensive.
So what are your thoughts on RAID 1, do you really need RAID 1 or is a Single drive NAS enough with a external backup drive and software to sync.
Maybe even if you have two USB ports you could try and mirror the drive.
Would to know what your thoughts are on RAID 1.
Thanks
I have always been told by the IT Company that supports our server that you must have at least Raid 1 along with a form of backup been tape or an External drive.
So I have been looking for a NAS to work as a Central storage for two computers, keep in mind the NAS must have a USB port for an External Backup and the NAS also has to have RAID 1.
The trouble is I can't find to many NAS units that have RAID 1.
Western digital has the My Book world edition (Single Drive) Seagate has Freeagent (Single Drive) and Maxtor has the Central Axis (Single Drive) the only one I have found is the Lacie 2big, which looked great until I read reviews on it, and it seems there are a lot of disappointed Lacie customers.
I have found the Synology and QNAP NAS products, but these require you to purchase the drives separately which gets to expensive.
So what are your thoughts on RAID 1, do you really need RAID 1 or is a Single drive NAS enough with a external backup drive and software to sync.
Maybe even if you have two USB ports you could try and mirror the drive.
Would to know what your thoughts are on RAID 1.
Thanks