Just downgraded my No. 2 laptop and now it's much faster.
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It did have a pair of 640GB WD Scorpio Blue drives, but now it's just got a 240GB C: drive and a 500GB D: drive. Mind you, the C: is an SSD* and the D: a 7200rpm hybrid, which does help things along a bit. :-\ The shrinkage is not an issue as I only use it for music streaming and the occasional video. The real issue is what to do with the multiplicity of currently redundant laptop spinners collected over the eons from previous upgrades. I have at least a dozen, not including the four I use for regular backups. Anybody recommend a nice NAS cage for a miscellany of 2.5" drives ranging from 320GB/7200rpm to 1TB/5400rpm? I get soooo depressed seeing them all sitting there idle in a desk drawer. :sigh: * ...which came from the No. 1 laptop when I upgraded that.
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It did have a pair of 640GB WD Scorpio Blue drives, but now it's just got a 240GB C: drive and a 500GB D: drive. Mind you, the C: is an SSD* and the D: a 7200rpm hybrid, which does help things along a bit. :-\ The shrinkage is not an issue as I only use it for music streaming and the occasional video. The real issue is what to do with the multiplicity of currently redundant laptop spinners collected over the eons from previous upgrades. I have at least a dozen, not including the four I use for regular backups. Anybody recommend a nice NAS cage for a miscellany of 2.5" drives ranging from 320GB/7200rpm to 1TB/5400rpm? I get soooo depressed seeing them all sitting there idle in a desk drawer. :sigh: * ...which came from the No. 1 laptop when I upgraded that.
Maybe one of these best-nas-enclosures-under-300[^]
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Maybe one of these best-nas-enclosures-under-300[^]
Thanks for the link, but I am thinking more of a small RAID NAS that could take a minimum of four drives, and preferably one dedicated to 2.5" drives. The only things I can find out here are already loaded with drives, and Amazon don't seem to have anything appropriate, although one of my ex-colleagues had a nice RAID 10 enclosure that could be loaded with at least half a dozen spinners.
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It did have a pair of 640GB WD Scorpio Blue drives, but now it's just got a 240GB C: drive and a 500GB D: drive. Mind you, the C: is an SSD* and the D: a 7200rpm hybrid, which does help things along a bit. :-\ The shrinkage is not an issue as I only use it for music streaming and the occasional video. The real issue is what to do with the multiplicity of currently redundant laptop spinners collected over the eons from previous upgrades. I have at least a dozen, not including the four I use for regular backups. Anybody recommend a nice NAS cage for a miscellany of 2.5" drives ranging from 320GB/7200rpm to 1TB/5400rpm? I get soooo depressed seeing them all sitting there idle in a desk drawer. :sigh: * ...which came from the No. 1 laptop when I upgraded that.
You might try YOTTAMASTER Store[^] I did the same, had a couple of STAT disks and an SSD and stuck them in one of these inexpensive enclosures. Mines not set up for RAID though but they do sell RAID ready enclosures.
The less you need, the more you have. Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally. JaxCoder.com
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You might try YOTTAMASTER Store[^] I did the same, had a couple of STAT disks and an SSD and stuck them in one of these inexpensive enclosures. Mines not set up for RAID though but they do sell RAID ready enclosures.
The less you need, the more you have. Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally. JaxCoder.com
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Thanks for that - they do some interesting stuff, and more to the point, I can get it in Europe via Amazon!
Welcome I have the 4 drive, non-raid version hooked into a RPi 3+ running OpenMediaVault. It's not a NAS but it Works really well as my backup device.
The less you need, the more you have. Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally. JaxCoder.com
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It did have a pair of 640GB WD Scorpio Blue drives, but now it's just got a 240GB C: drive and a 500GB D: drive. Mind you, the C: is an SSD* and the D: a 7200rpm hybrid, which does help things along a bit. :-\ The shrinkage is not an issue as I only use it for music streaming and the occasional video. The real issue is what to do with the multiplicity of currently redundant laptop spinners collected over the eons from previous upgrades. I have at least a dozen, not including the four I use for regular backups. Anybody recommend a nice NAS cage for a miscellany of 2.5" drives ranging from 320GB/7200rpm to 1TB/5400rpm? I get soooo depressed seeing them all sitting there idle in a desk drawer. :sigh: * ...which came from the No. 1 laptop when I upgraded that.
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Extra backup drives. Useful when you realize your backup includes that already-corrupted version of the file you really, really wanted.
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It did have a pair of 640GB WD Scorpio Blue drives, but now it's just got a 240GB C: drive and a 500GB D: drive. Mind you, the C: is an SSD* and the D: a 7200rpm hybrid, which does help things along a bit. :-\ The shrinkage is not an issue as I only use it for music streaming and the occasional video. The real issue is what to do with the multiplicity of currently redundant laptop spinners collected over the eons from previous upgrades. I have at least a dozen, not including the four I use for regular backups. Anybody recommend a nice NAS cage for a miscellany of 2.5" drives ranging from 320GB/7200rpm to 1TB/5400rpm? I get soooo depressed seeing them all sitting there idle in a desk drawer. :sigh: * ...which came from the No. 1 laptop when I upgraded that.
We have used Synology's with good luck. Got a 4 banger that has been solid for several years. I just took an old workstation and converted it with Truenas. Supports RAID. SFSG. As those drives got old, hard to rely on them. I just bite the bullet and drill a hole in the platters and discard in the electronic waste bin at the local haz. waste place.
>64 If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I already have backups of my backups. If I build a RAID NAS then I will have backups of my backup backups. :wtf:
That is a very bad way to think about that. RAID is NOT backup. That is a very, very important thing to remember. RAID just gives you redundant media so the MTBF is better but it is NOT backup. To repeat myself because this is important : RAID is NOT backup.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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It did have a pair of 640GB WD Scorpio Blue drives, but now it's just got a 240GB C: drive and a 500GB D: drive. Mind you, the C: is an SSD* and the D: a 7200rpm hybrid, which does help things along a bit. :-\ The shrinkage is not an issue as I only use it for music streaming and the occasional video. The real issue is what to do with the multiplicity of currently redundant laptop spinners collected over the eons from previous upgrades. I have at least a dozen, not including the four I use for regular backups. Anybody recommend a nice NAS cage for a miscellany of 2.5" drives ranging from 320GB/7200rpm to 1TB/5400rpm? I get soooo depressed seeing them all sitting there idle in a desk drawer. :sigh: * ...which came from the No. 1 laptop when I upgraded that.
I'd buy some cheap USB enclosures and use them as additional off-line backups.
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It did have a pair of 640GB WD Scorpio Blue drives, but now it's just got a 240GB C: drive and a 500GB D: drive. Mind you, the C: is an SSD* and the D: a 7200rpm hybrid, which does help things along a bit. :-\ The shrinkage is not an issue as I only use it for music streaming and the occasional video. The real issue is what to do with the multiplicity of currently redundant laptop spinners collected over the eons from previous upgrades. I have at least a dozen, not including the four I use for regular backups. Anybody recommend a nice NAS cage for a miscellany of 2.5" drives ranging from 320GB/7200rpm to 1TB/5400rpm? I get soooo depressed seeing them all sitting there idle in a desk drawer. :sigh: * ...which came from the No. 1 laptop when I upgraded that.
I've been using a Drobo5N2 for about 4 years now. Well there was a gap in the middle. The drive held my ripped collection of DVD's that I could watch on Plex and some backups. The gap came from an issue after a firmware upgrade. I couldn't mount the drives anymore. The unit was out of warranty, so I tried several steps on my own and could not get it to recover. It sat for over a year mocking me. I don't remember everything I did to try and recover, but near the end I know I pulled drives trying to get it to rebuild, which it did, but still would not mount. When I got back to it I did another firmware upgrade, still no love. So I decided I would pay for a support call. Turns out they never charged me nor even ask for a credit card. One of my drives may have caused an initial problem that was exacerbated when the firmware update rebooted the box. I didn't see anything in the later firmware notes, but I assume there was something that was fixed later. Drobo support was able to point me to some publicly available tools to get things working again. The support was done over their support messaging system. It took a couple of days of back and forth, but was very helpful and ended in success. My point to all of this is that I expected to have to start over with an empty Drobo. But even with all of the drive pulling I did when I figured I didn't have anything to lose, the system maintained integrity. I didn't loose any data.
