Few questions/recomendations I thought I would run past you knowledable guys here.
Firstly: With having multiple computers (of varying stability and age) I have felt it may be beneficial to go from having a desktop with a load of internal drives, a few external drives and a nightmare when I finally manage to back up some of the data I feel is important enough to do so.
Solution I think I'm leaning towards for this main storage is to be a RAID5 NAS. Requirements are a minimum of 4bays, RAID5 capable, cross-platform (Win, OSX and Linux) sharing, takes standard drives which I can spec buy and install myself (no special firmware version of drives like older systems often used.)
QNAP seem to be the company that comes to the forefront. Think the TS410 should do for me but trying to work out the real differences between that and the TS412/TS419P I am a little unsure... Everything seems to point to the TS410 being suitable but any others I should consider?
Next: Having had another hard drive fail on my laptop I am considering replacing it with an SSD. What of 120GB and upwards falls at a good cost to performance ratio currently. Not in need of something top of the range but more something reliable and rugged (although anything with no moving parts should be rugged.) Am starting to wonder if my laptop may have poor power rails, thus the dying hard drives, or if I have just been unlucky with bad batches though...
Finally: Related to the last. If I go SSD I think I'll want an extra external for the laptop with all my samples and audio/video related stuff on. What I would like is a dual bay, RAID1, 2.5" external. If it can also be bus-powered that is a definite bonus (know single 2.5" caddies normally are but unsure about dual ones.)
Thanks for any words of wisdom or pointers you can give
Firstly: With having multiple computers (of varying stability and age) I have felt it may be beneficial to go from having a desktop with a load of internal drives, a few external drives and a nightmare when I finally manage to back up some of the data I feel is important enough to do so.
Solution I think I'm leaning towards for this main storage is to be a RAID5 NAS. Requirements are a minimum of 4bays, RAID5 capable, cross-platform (Win, OSX and Linux) sharing, takes standard drives which I can spec buy and install myself (no special firmware version of drives like older systems often used.)
QNAP seem to be the company that comes to the forefront. Think the TS410 should do for me but trying to work out the real differences between that and the TS412/TS419P I am a little unsure... Everything seems to point to the TS410 being suitable but any others I should consider?
Next: Having had another hard drive fail on my laptop I am considering replacing it with an SSD. What of 120GB and upwards falls at a good cost to performance ratio currently. Not in need of something top of the range but more something reliable and rugged (although anything with no moving parts should be rugged.) Am starting to wonder if my laptop may have poor power rails, thus the dying hard drives, or if I have just been unlucky with bad batches though...
Finally: Related to the last. If I go SSD I think I'll want an extra external for the laptop with all my samples and audio/video related stuff on. What I would like is a dual bay, RAID1, 2.5" external. If it can also be bus-powered that is a definite bonus (know single 2.5" caddies normally are but unsure about dual ones.)
Thanks for any words of wisdom or pointers you can give