ninjarobert
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- Dec 13, 2014
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I've been around computers for the past 20 years-- queue memories of my 50 Mhz Packard Bell 486/DX2 computer and making electronic schematics in MS Paint. HAHA! I'm comfortable with personal computers. I've built and upgraded many of them. However, I've never really gotten into servers and networking and now find the need for both.
My wife and I started a photography business last year. I thought a 1 TB drive would last a few years, but it's full now. To backup, I've been using Windows Backup to an external drive over eSATA. I'm now at a crossroads of devising a new storage/backup plan. I'm entertaining two options:
1. Pull the 1 TB drive and put it on a shelf until I need to access data on it. Replace the 1 TB drive with another for new jobs. Continue backing up to an external drive.
2. Build a NAS server and easily access all our 'old' data and backup all our 'new' data over a network.
#1 has been a pain. I'm lazy about popping drives in and out to perform backups (we have 2 personal photo drives as well). And that leads me to #2. I originally was just going to buy a Synology because I don't have much free time to build my on server, but then I did a lot of reading about freeNAS and saw this awesome community and decided to go for it. Plus, I think it's an awesome learning opportunity :)
So here I am. I put together a couple of builds after reading through these forums. Hope to post them here shortly for your feedback. I look forward to being a part of this community!
EDIT: Here's my 'build' post! https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...o-atx-with-8-drives-advice-appreciated.25667/
My wife and I started a photography business last year. I thought a 1 TB drive would last a few years, but it's full now. To backup, I've been using Windows Backup to an external drive over eSATA. I'm now at a crossroads of devising a new storage/backup plan. I'm entertaining two options:
1. Pull the 1 TB drive and put it on a shelf until I need to access data on it. Replace the 1 TB drive with another for new jobs. Continue backing up to an external drive.
2. Build a NAS server and easily access all our 'old' data and backup all our 'new' data over a network.
#1 has been a pain. I'm lazy about popping drives in and out to perform backups (we have 2 personal photo drives as well). And that leads me to #2. I originally was just going to buy a Synology because I don't have much free time to build my on server, but then I did a lot of reading about freeNAS and saw this awesome community and decided to go for it. Plus, I think it's an awesome learning opportunity :)
So here I am. I put together a couple of builds after reading through these forums. Hope to post them here shortly for your feedback. I look forward to being a part of this community!
EDIT: Here's my 'build' post! https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...o-atx-with-8-drives-advice-appreciated.25667/
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