Re: [libreoffice-users] External Hard Drives - to save my LO and other content

Hi,

Thank you for your appreciation. You are very kind.
1 USD is worth about 1.25 CAD. However, US buyers usually have access
to overall cheaper prices. You can look on TigerDirect.com or
BestBuy.com as a starting point and see what's available there (TD had
272 units before I wrote this message). A good startup article could
also be this one if you are not familiar with NAS devices: https://www.
pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401086,00.asp, and then this: https://www.as
ustor.com/service/nas_selector (at least to get the specs of what you
need).

When I spoke of WD Red, it was in the context of getting a diskless
unit for which you buy the amount of storage you need (for example, I
bought 4x3TB that I run in RAID 5 which gives an effective 8TB of
storage separate from the unit). I honestly would not know how to
detect if a box has WD Reds in it or not, unless by opening it.

For the longest while, I had a two disk (2x 2TB) Iomega unit that
served me very well (an equivalent unit would probably be the WD - My
Cloud EX2 Ultra 4TB 2-Bay External Network Storage or Synology -
DiskStation 2-bay External Network Storage). As the number of users and
usage grew, it became a bit under-powered so I had to upgrade, but I
would recommend something like that for a single user. If you have a
lot of media files and want to stream from your NAS, then go for a unit
with a larger processor (quad-core with higher frequency) and ideally
expandable memory.

I hope this helps.

Rémy Gauthier.

Le mercredi 18 octobre 2017 à 16:11 -0400, charles meyer a écrit :
> Hi Remy,
>
> Your posts are so appreciated.
>
> I'm in the USA so I'm not sure how  500-600 CAD$, 675-1000 CAD$ translates into
> American dollars?
>
> Is it easier to detect which NAS drives are Red
> than trying to ascertain that with WD?
>
> Thank you so much,
>
> Charles.
>
> From: Remy Gauthier <remygauthier@yahoo.com>
> To: charles meyer <reachmeplace@gmail.com>, "users@global.libreoffice.org" <
> users@global.libreoffice.org>
> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:10:35 -0400
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] External Hard Drives - to save my LO and
> other content
>
> Hi,
>
> Hard drives will die (even SSDs). While MTBF indicates long periods of
> time, some will still experience drive failures with corresponding loss
> of data (been there, done that). If you want to use something external
> to store your data while still having very low probability of data
> loss, I would recommend buying a NAS. Most of these units will have
> multiple disks used to ensure the loss of one hard disk will not
> negatively affect you. Get a two-bay unit operated in RAID 1 at a
> minimum; this means you can loose one disk and keep on going until you
> replace the faulty disk. Units with more bays will provide additional
> levels of protection, but at a higher initial investment (ASUSTOR 2-bay
> units go for about 500-600 CAD$, 675-1000 CAD$ for 4-bay plus hard
> disks - my IT buddy would probably tell you to go for WD Red)
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