A local business has asked me to get them a NAS drive and I was looking for suggestions as its an area I don't know much about. They want to store business files on the drive which will work in real time and accessed by several machines on the network.
Whats the best way to backup a NAS drive? They want to do daily backups and would prefer it to be automatic and carried out at the end of each working day.
I hear a lot about various forms of RAID and one that allows mirroring so if you had two drives and one fails, things can carry on at work with the one drive and you just replace the damaged drive. I thought this would be ideal so the company would never really suffer from downtime unless both drives died.
Is there a better method or another form of Raid worth considering? Do the drives have to be the same spec or say in a years time, one drive packs up, can you stick any size of drive into the machine and it will carry on? i.e One 500Gb drive needs replaced and you stick a 2TB drive in a year later to replace the damaged drive. Will a 500Gb drive work ok in Raid with a 2Tb drive?
Remote access is important to files from home so how good is the security for remote access and is it a case of setting up port forwarding on the router to redirect to the NAS drive?
Most importantly, if the NAS went bang in the morning, can you plug the drives into your desktop for example, and still be able to read the contents or do they use some other form of a filing system?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Whats the best way to backup a NAS drive? They want to do daily backups and would prefer it to be automatic and carried out at the end of each working day.
I hear a lot about various forms of RAID and one that allows mirroring so if you had two drives and one fails, things can carry on at work with the one drive and you just replace the damaged drive. I thought this would be ideal so the company would never really suffer from downtime unless both drives died.
Is there a better method or another form of Raid worth considering? Do the drives have to be the same spec or say in a years time, one drive packs up, can you stick any size of drive into the machine and it will carry on? i.e One 500Gb drive needs replaced and you stick a 2TB drive in a year later to replace the damaged drive. Will a 500Gb drive work ok in Raid with a 2Tb drive?
Remote access is important to files from home so how good is the security for remote access and is it a case of setting up port forwarding on the router to redirect to the NAS drive?
Most importantly, if the NAS went bang in the morning, can you plug the drives into your desktop for example, and still be able to read the contents or do they use some other form of a filing system?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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