Zahnrad Kopf
Diamond
- Joined
- Apr 5, 2010
- Location
- Tropic of Milwaukee
Recent events have illustrated to us that recent growth needs to accommodate our computer ( IT ) resources as well.
( Tony's discussion about backing up your computer )
Originally, my thinking was to purchase a newer NAS and install a SSD for better performance. Then, I considered two SSDs, in the event that one should fail. This inevitably leads to a consideration of RAID level strategies, as well. During this, it also occurred to me that we now have several computers and I am often transferring data from one to another, or placing it in a special folder on the NAS for the purpose of doing so.
Now, key to remember is that we are still very small. I'm not talking about thousands of dollars, nor terabytes of data. Frankly, it looks like a few hundred dollars would do the trick. So, now we are looking at considering using a network server for most of the data .... which then brings up the question/possibility of using a Four bay NAS. Three drives for RAID enabled backups, and One drive for network serving. ( serving all CAD/CAM data storage, common program data, and a mail store for our mail client to pull from so that all computers have the same mails available )
So the questions are - Can they be used that way? ( 3x1 in the manner I've described ) And can anyone recommend some choices based upon actual experience? Maybe we should be looking at two separate solutions? ( one server/internal cloud and one RAID backup box ) I am not interested in theories, suppositions, conjecture, or stories garnered from a cousin's friend's barber's kid in school for IT. I'm interested in what others in our situation have done, experienced, and found to work well.
Oh, and I'm not interested in building anything, short of placing drives in box. Too much going on to be bothered right now.
And, if any of this is problematic for any reason, why.
Thanks.
( Tony's discussion about backing up your computer )
Originally, my thinking was to purchase a newer NAS and install a SSD for better performance. Then, I considered two SSDs, in the event that one should fail. This inevitably leads to a consideration of RAID level strategies, as well. During this, it also occurred to me that we now have several computers and I am often transferring data from one to another, or placing it in a special folder on the NAS for the purpose of doing so.
Now, key to remember is that we are still very small. I'm not talking about thousands of dollars, nor terabytes of data. Frankly, it looks like a few hundred dollars would do the trick. So, now we are looking at considering using a network server for most of the data .... which then brings up the question/possibility of using a Four bay NAS. Three drives for RAID enabled backups, and One drive for network serving. ( serving all CAD/CAM data storage, common program data, and a mail store for our mail client to pull from so that all computers have the same mails available )
So the questions are - Can they be used that way? ( 3x1 in the manner I've described ) And can anyone recommend some choices based upon actual experience? Maybe we should be looking at two separate solutions? ( one server/internal cloud and one RAID backup box ) I am not interested in theories, suppositions, conjecture, or stories garnered from a cousin's friend's barber's kid in school for IT. I'm interested in what others in our situation have done, experienced, and found to work well.
Oh, and I'm not interested in building anything, short of placing drives in box. Too much going on to be bothered right now.
And, if any of this is problematic for any reason, why.
Thanks.