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Talk to me about it! Say compared to the QNAP TS-209 II? Is it good system for having upto 8 computers connect to it at a time on 1000mbps links?



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You can only use it with one machine, but that machine can then share it. Performance may not be enough for you, at best 80MB/s which steadily drops depending on how full it is.
 
AbsenceJam said:
Well what do you want to do exactly?
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I have two incoming broadband lines.. So I need a load balancing router (probably getting a Draytek one).. Because there will be upto eight users online at any time I also need something to route the connection (internet and stroage) around the house. Therefore I am probably getting an 8port netgear 1000mbps switch.

I need something that a PS3 can use as a media server (as well as AppleTV), something that can have all the files from every computer backed up onto and also so that I can have a centralised iTunes library (therefore meaning the same library is on every computer but stored on the main server), something with CCTV recording facilities, print server facilities.

TIA
 
cheechm said:
I have two incoming broadband lines.. So I need a load balancing router (probably getting a Draytek one).. Because there will be upto eight users online at any time I also need something to route the connection (internet and stroage) around the house. Therefore I am probably getting an 8port netgear 1000mbps switch.

I need something that a PS3 can use as a media server (as well as AppleTV), something that can have all the files from every computer backed up onto and also so that I can have a centralised iTunes library (therefore meaning the same library is on every computer but stored on the main server), something with CCTV recording facilities, print server facilities.

TIA
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Windows Home Server and 8 x 1Tb drives? Should cost way less than a grand, and offer much more.

There's plenty of options available, have you got a budget?
 
yep build a server. you can add in several gbit network cards then and run raid 5 or 50 or some other raid iteration. although if you need data access by several people i`m not sure if raid 5 will be enough or you would have to get SAS drives
 
Ok. Sounds good. To set up the WHS do I need to format all the PCs in my house and essentially start again? Or can I just add the users to the server?
 
there is a connector cd that installs some software on each computer that contacts the home server, everything is done through that and you can access the server remotly

edit: so no you don`t have to format all the pcs
 
One thing to take note of, I've never actually used WHS, only quickly tested it in a VM, but it's my understanding that you can't use RAID with it. Rather, it uses its own proprietary software RAID that mirrors data over a volume.

It is quite clever in how it works though (again, presuming I'm not getting mixed up). Consider the following:

You have 8 x 1Tb disks and WHS installed. You want 1Tb for downloads, but decide that downloads aren't important enough to warrant backing up, so don't turn on replication.

However, you do want your client PC backups replicated, and so you turn replication on for the 2Tb share in which you have them stored. This means that the 2Tb is mirrored onto another 2Tb dynamically. You then want another 1Tb for a general public share, with it not being replicated, and a 1Tb share for your movie collection that is replicated.

So in that scenario you would have used the full 8Tb:
4Tb for machine backups and replication.
2Tb for movie collection and replication.
1Tb general share
1Tb downloads share

Someone with more experience with WHS can probably advise you better :)
 
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