Back Up Solution.... Thoughts/Advice Please

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Been trying to work out the best way to store/backup my photos as my current drive arrangement is getting a little full.......

Current situation......

I have a 500GB HDD in my laptop that only has about 40GB of free space. My photo collection on there is around 300GB.

I have a backup of that on a portable 1TB HDD (around 350GB) and that is backed up to 2 separate 1TB external HDDs connected to my Media Centre PC (these drives also store my music & movie collection), the full photo back up size is around 450GB, one of the 1TB drives only has 50GB free space :lol:

I did consider getting a NAS device with 2 x 2TB HDDs and running RAID 0/1 but then read some horror stories about the RAID part corrupting backups/data transfer and that even if you use RAID1, both drives could have the data corrupted and 1 NAS box should be considered as 1 backup..... I can't afford/justify 2 4TB NAS boxes :lol:

So..... Seeing as I'm not too bothered about the device being networked or automated (nice to have but not essential) I was going to get 2 2TB desktop HDDs (they would be a mirror of each other) then realised I'd already be utilising nearly 25% of them already so I then looked at 3TB HDDs :lol:

The new plan is to buy 2 3TB internal HDDs and use an HDD dock with the plan being that one of the drives will live at my parents and I'll update it monthly.

The other thought I had was for an ICY NAS box that lets you configure in JBOD but I have a niggling doubt in my mind that the box itself could still cause problems when writing the data to the discs.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. Budget wise I have about £300 (or so) to throw at this.
 
Yup.. probably a good solution.

If you have a spare 5.25" slot in a sensible (i.e. connected to your main datastore by a fast link) enclosure, you might like to take a look at these: http://www.ebuyer.com/229062-starte...-mobile-rack-for-3-5in-hard-drive-hsb100satbk as you can just insert a drive into that and assuming O/S and motherboard hot plug detection, you instantly have another drive connected directly to a SATA connector.
 
Russ77 said:
Yeah, I saw some pretty scary prices when researching :lol:
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indeed. buy good, buy once. sold off my two cheaper netgear boxes and bought a more expensive synology, blew the netgears socks off plus its expandable. their support is much much better than netgears woahful offering.
 
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neil_g said:
indeed. buy good, buy once. sold off my two cheaper netgear boxes and bought a more expensive synology, blew the netgears socks off plus its expandable. their support is much much better than netgears woahful offering.
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Yeah, know what you mean.

The other theory about the 2 internal 3TB drives is that in months/years to come I could potentially house them in a suitable NAS enclosure as opposed to external HDDs (which I would have to butcher to liberate the drive :lol: )

Synology is a name I keep hearing so will definitely bear that in mind ;)
 
Russ77 said:
Yeah, know what you mean.

The other theory about the 2 internal 3TB drives is that in months/years to come I could potentially house them in a suitable NAS enclosure as opposed to external HDDs (which I would have to butcher to liberate the drive :lol: )

Synology is a name I keep hearing so will definitely bear that in mind ;)
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that is an option yes, or keep the desktops to backup the NAS
 
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