4TB backup solution - recommendations on how please!

1/Going to have to use google on the model number, and possibly ask the ubuntu forums
2/I think youd need exactly the same card, but perhaps not
3/Data would be gone, and Id tease you for not using software in the first place :)
 
The Drobo, though sounding excellent at first but after reading round it seems like problems problems problems...from basic things like it being constantly noisy when the drives are near filled, to long rebuild times, to it just not working correctly.

Also a Pro version would cost more than the whole system I was looking at (though would save me hours and hours of time!).

Thanks for the thought but I think I'll be looking at the original plan.
 
I agree with BigCheese. There's some really good advice in this thread. In fact for once, hardly any bad advice :)
Quick question though, is it possible to save money for yourself by just making your main desktop computer into this storage server as well? I've looked at doing something similar before and then always said to myself that I couldn't justify the extra cost for hardware and electricity and ended up just adding more (bigger capacity) hard disks in my current machine.

Anyway assuming you do still go ahead with it and build a storage solution. I would personally also consider the hardware route very carefully. If you do buy an expensive all singing all dancing raid controller card and it fails, you would have to buy another one if you had it in a raid 5/6 array to get your data back. These can cost hundreds for good ones. If you go hardware raid using a built in mobo raid facilities, this is still going to be £100+ for a new mobo.

The other thing is that RAID should really be used for convenience of uptime and a seperate backup solution used on the side. Obviously this practically doubles the storage cost in disks mind. Saying that, you would be unlucky to get a raid 6 failure (3 disks at once). Can and does happen though if they are all housed in the same machine under the same PSU. All the disks could go pop. Very unlikely but it has happened to people. Just trying to open your eyes to a seperate backup if it is important data.
 
Also don't forget you'll want to backup that 10TB of data somewhere and store it offsite, I mean think how you would feel if you had a fire or a water leak or a robbery! :eek: ;)
 
Whatever you do, I'd advise against buying all your disks from one source. If there is a bad batch, you could be be buying a whole set of bad disks. You can see this in product reviews on some competitor websites, five star reviews, then a wave of one star complaints when the bad batch hits and then back to five star reviews wondering what all the one star reviews were about.

I'd buy identical drives but from different sources, so for example I bought one of my 1TB drives from OcUK and one from a competitor.
 
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