Magnetic can be erased, damaged or worn out. But it can also be very fast. Hard drives are magnetic.
Optical can be written only once(in most cases) scratched, improperly burned or lost, but they are portable, cheap and easy to mail.
Solid state is very small, will not wear out from excessive use and is relatively durable.
One response so farI am looking to use a Network Attached Storage device for home use, but i am not sure which device to choose.
I would like to keep costs reasonable while obtaining raid 5 reliability. There are many products on the market, but reviews for these products are either limited or do not seem to have high rankings of the products.
Can someone suggest a good information source? or alternatively a recommendation.
Personally, I would run a RAID 10 with 4 drives. RAID 5 has big performance hits. Too many read and writes shorten lifetime of drives and will cost more in the long run only with 3 drives compared to 4 with RAID 10. I left a link below, but do a search for RAID 5 vs RAID 10, RAID is definitely more favorable.
Last year I bought 4 500GB Western Digital Drives for about $55, so I’d imagine you can do better than that now.
As far as NAS goes, it seems like almost all of them are overpriced and have slow transfer rates. The whole point is that you don’t want your external drives to be bottlenecked by the configuration you choose. Depending on your drives they will probably not be reading/writing faster than 80 MB/s. With 4 drives, you want to make sure that you have throughput of about 320 MB/s.
So the cheapest solution if possible is to setup a RAID on a computer that is accessible to the whole network. If you’re Motherboard supports RAID and has 4 SATA connection that is your best and cheapest solution or you can you can buy a good PCIe RAID Controller Card if your motherboard doesn’t support RAID. Make sure the PCIe slot is at least PCIe x2 because PCIe x1 will only give you 250 MB/s in bandwidth as opposed to 500 MB/s, not to mention the RAID Controller Card you choose should be capable at running 2x as well.
Technically, you could even build a very cheap computer that cost less than a good NAS but will be just as fast or faster and way more uses than a dumbbox.
Obviously if money was not object you can buy a top of the line NAS from a good company like Promise, but even their home NAS transfers only at 1000 Mb/s, which is really 120 MB/s.
One response so farI want to put NAS on my home network but already have two good desktop machines that could be used. Is there software out there that will allow me to use a desktop as a dedicated NAS box rather than have to buy a NAS box and spend yet more money?!
If the machine already has windows on it simply SHARE the drive on the network and give full control.
Remember though that a PC will use a LOT more electricity to run than a NAS would, so factor in that cost ofer 2 years and the NAS might be a cheaper option
2 responses so farI use backup exec 11d for windows servers. And I need to find out where I can find out which tape was used when there is a failed job so I can reclaim them. I can see the properties of the failed job under Job History but theres not device name: Can anyone help? Thanks!
you need to look at the job log for the failed job. it will tell you the tapes & devices used, as well as what systems & files that were backed up. it will also tell you if & when there were any failures. here’s a link to 11d’s admin guide:
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/288005.htm
One response so farIve just recently purchased a sata hard drive up till now Ive been using to 120gb IDE ones and after pluged in in the sata one it doesn’t show up. it shows up when loading windows you can go into the Raid config Utility and stuff and it knows it there although the bios doesn’t notice it and nore does windows!
1. Can u use both types in the same pc?
2. If so how do i set it up? to work Ive installed some drives in windows although it doesn’t show up as a hard drive.
Yes, it will work, for Windows XP for sure. In the BIOS you choose SATA + IDE, or something similar.
In Windows 98, the drives might run in compatibility mode.
What I really suggest, is buying one of those IDE to SATA converters. Sometimes, they are built into an enclosure and you need to remove it. Find a local computer store and ask for a IDE to SATA converter.
3 responses so farI recently purchased an external DVD drive. When I first connected via USB cord to my laptop it functioned correctly and displayed an icon for the drive in "my computer". Now, however, my computer is not displaying an icon for the drive and when I plug it in it is telling me that I have connected a "USB 2.0 mass storage device".
I have already installed all of the necessary drivers. Is there a reason why my DVD drive is not being detected and is there a way I can fix this.
I disconnected the USB cord without using the add/remove hardware icon. Did that damage the software/hardware in some way?
Was the external drive removed without using add/remove device?
Did you pull the pulg on it? Have you had any recent storms or power surges that you know of?
I would uninstall the drive and reinstall it.
Could also be a driver issue.
Good Luck.
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