Kaldskryke
[H]ard|Gawd
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- Aug 1, 2004
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Hey,
I recently had a hardware problem, and for a moment I thought my hard drive had died. Fortunately, that was not the case and the hard drive is fine. Yet the experience reminded me how foolish I am for not doing regular backups or anything.
I've got about 400GB of data that I'd like to protect from drive failure, but I'm not sure what the easiest way to do so is. I frequently add to this data pool so I'd really rather not try to use scheduled backup software unless it can do things incrementally and automatically.
A friend of mine has a Drobo and it seems like a pretty easy solution, but I'm not sure how good the performance will be if it's limited to USB2.0.
Also, at $600, I wonder if it wouldn't be too much more expensive to build a simple file server but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. Just looking around this forum I see that WHS is very popular but I'm not sure what it offers to me that a Drobo wouldn't.
Am I missing an obvious and easy solution?
Thanks!
I recently had a hardware problem, and for a moment I thought my hard drive had died. Fortunately, that was not the case and the hard drive is fine. Yet the experience reminded me how foolish I am for not doing regular backups or anything.
I've got about 400GB of data that I'd like to protect from drive failure, but I'm not sure what the easiest way to do so is. I frequently add to this data pool so I'd really rather not try to use scheduled backup software unless it can do things incrementally and automatically.
A friend of mine has a Drobo and it seems like a pretty easy solution, but I'm not sure how good the performance will be if it's limited to USB2.0.
Also, at $600, I wonder if it wouldn't be too much more expensive to build a simple file server but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. Just looking around this forum I see that WHS is very popular but I'm not sure what it offers to me that a Drobo wouldn't.
Am I missing an obvious and easy solution?
Thanks!