NAS RAID for home users?

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Hi there,

Have looked at the mybook world 2 which has NAS and RAID but this is turning out to be quirky and unreliable - i.e. lots of people claiming they are failing ans i just had one fail also.

any other RAID solutions for backup purposes along a similar vain anyone can recommend?

thanks for reading
 
wesley said:
FYI, RAID should not be used for backup.
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That should really be clarified. RAID is _not_ a replacement for backups, which is what you probably meant, but there is no reason not to back things up to a separate RAID device, i.e. the primary copy is locally on the PC and the backup copy is on a NAS RAID device.

Hence if the PC disk fails then you still have the backed up copy and if a disk fails in the NAS you still have access to a backup copy.
 
There is noting wrong with backing up to RAID in my opinion as long as the array is mirrored.

At home I backup to a Synology NAS with two mirrored 750Gb drives.
 
RAID 1 Mirrored set without parity. Provides fault tolerance from disk errors and failure of all but one of the drives. Increased read performance occurs when using a multi-threaded operating system that supports split seeks, very small performance reduction when writing. Array continues to operate so long as at least one drive is functioning.
 
A raid 1 or 5 is fine for keeping an online back at home, but as others has pointed out, you need to keep an offline backup if you want to be really safe with your data.

In answer to your question, most of the big name brands sell NAS boxes so you really just need to pick one which has the capacity you like and looks nice :), the functionality will be very similar. Just make sure if you get one with hard drives already installed, it isn't setup as a raid 0.

would seem like it would do the job for you, after you've added your disks to it.
 
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