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considering NAS to replace external USB3 drives
chenks:
--- Quote from: Chrysalis on June 19, 2018, 11:18:40 AM ---You could find horror stories for just about everything to be honest if you look. Going with a vendor lock in solution is a bad idea tho, if the vendor unit fails you risk losing your data unless you buy something else from the same vendor.
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indeed, but i know less than zero about FreeNAS, so a horror story when you know zero is enough to keep me away from it, especially when it comes to data storage.
with a vendor unit you have a level of support you can access, and yes i know FreeNAS wil have that too but i suspect that is more "community" based.
FreeNAS, though, is just not something i want to jump in to.
parkdale:
If you're only after more space, these are good value, and fairly robust units.
A friend of mine uses one as a temporary store for his Go-Pro captures before editing on his work station, using the Esata port.
If the disk goes bad (he's uses the built in mirror, you just chuck another in job done.
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/4-bay-icy-box-ib-3640su3-external-jbod-system-for-35-sata-hdds-with-usb-30-and-esata-host
Really it's just a bigger USB storage device
chenks:
interesting, so it's essentially just a 4 bay USB external enclosure?
i says "Silent operation by thermal controlled fan" but that's a failrly big fan on the back of it.
Ronski:
Bigger fans normally run more slowly and therefore quieter.
Currently have 10 bays in my server with space for 5 more, but as drives have got bigger I'm not using all the bays/space I have available now.
That icy box looks interesting, need something to put down my brother's house for off site back.
chenks:
no raid though, so doesn't really offer any redundancy.
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