I need to upgrade my storage, big time, at my wits end

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my storage system is an absolute mess, about 10 hard drives scattered across multiple operating systems (I use pc and mac), and i really need to just condense it all down into one place, where I get decent transfer speeds too, as it would be nice to not have drives operating as slow as 40mb's, i'm not sure if that's because they're getting somewhat full

I need some new drives, and i'm really thinking that it's time to invest in a drobo or a nas or something instead of just drives and drives and drives, i think an expandable 5 bay raid would be the dream set-up, any one have any experience with them?
 
Synology NAS box.
I've been running one since Feb with 0 down time.
 
remember whatever you get you need a full backup solution size isn't everything.
Hubic do a 10tb back solution for the cloud
 
Mr Bump said:
remember whatever you get you need a full backup solution size isn't everything.
Hubic do a 10tb back solution for the cloud
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Thought I would look at Hubic as don't recall knowing of them.......but found this report, that if true buyer beware.

https://www.cloudwards.net/review/hubic/

They say not taking new customers and current ones potentially at risk???
 
Avoid drobo, I've heard of very poor reports trying to get support from them. Proprietary file system etc where most others use the ext system.

Synology and qnap would be my vote. However...

Very eggs in one basket, you still need a secondary backup. Preferably one that can be removed from site (drawer at work etc).

Working from a nas is not going to be especially fast without going for a cabled gigabit network.

A raid das may be an option to solve the speed issues, startech do esata/Usb3 raid devices.

What's your budget? Capacity requirement. And Internet speeds up and down to see if cloud is viable.
 
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/caveat - only one PC to worry about...

I've got a single 5Tb Lacie external that is mapped to my main PC and connected via USB3. This is where the "master" copies all sit and is my working directory. OnFileChange, everything is then written over to a Netgear RN104. 4 Bays, 8Tb, network attached, less costly than QNAP or Synology. (If I'd had the cash I would have gone for them though). However the Netgear has been very solid & reliable. No issues in 5(?) years now apart from me using cheap disks. Swapped to WD Reds a couple of years ago and not had a whiff of a problem since.

Tertiary (off site) backup to the Amazon cloud which is free unlimited photo storage with Amazon Prime. I tend to do that monthly (and manually) in case of virus issues contaminating everything at home. It's a 5 minute job to kick off.
 
Sorry to say it but again netgear falls squarely on my poop list for support.

You definitely get what you pay for, synology remoted into my faulty ds1010 and diagnosed the issue then had a new rma out sharpish. Netgear on the other hand sent me a scratched and dented refurb (it was also a much older revision) .
 
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I'd be getting all those images on AWS S3. It'll cost b****r all for terabytes of data and you simply won't lose it. Obviously initially getting the data up there will take time and cost somewhat but once it's there it's reliable backup.
 
I would get an NAS but obviously it depends on budget.

You could make a 20 TB one for under £600 but I don't know what speed it would be, not lightning fast anyway.
 
welly said:
I'd be getting all those images on AWS S3. It'll cost b****r all for terabytes of data and you simply won't lose it. Obviously initially getting the data up there will take time and cost somewhat but once it's there it's reliable backup.
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Amazon have actually lost customers data over the years.

Plus they've been hitting the news recently for their s3 platform because of data breaches (due to a combination of configuration issues and malware attacks to gain access) . They don't really have a good track record with leaking customers server data because of this.
 
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It sounds like you need a NAS. Or a storage server.
At least 4 bays for RAID6.
You can rotate a few large external drives for backups. Or if you are lazy as I was, invest in a second NAS and schedule a nightly/automated backup. If you have decent bandwidth available to you, you could place the second NAS at a remote location as to get off-site backups covered. You would need to use a secure protocol (rsync over SSH for instance) or set-up a site-to-site VPN, so at this point it's starting to get involved. But if you are willing to do your own research, it's all do-able.

People say storage is cheap because you can get so many Gigabytes to the £, but higly available/resilient storage is not.
Don't buy netgear. Don't buy buffalo. Don't buy drobo.
 
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