I came across a post a few months old on Tomshardware where they did a comprehensive review of the Hitachi 4TB hard drives and compares it to the 3TB hard drives that are available from Western Digital, Seagate and Hitachi itself. As of this writing, the Hitachi are still the most available 4TB hard drives as far as I can tell.…
Read more »Having a Backup Strategy and Why It Is Important
Over at thephoblographer.com, there is a new post describing a backup strategy in some detail. What it amounts to is a multi-layered approach with on site and off site backups providing redundancy that should cover just about any reasonable contingency.
The strategy outlined uses a Drobo (not the NAS version, the Drobo FS) as part of the local component of the backup strategy:
Read more »In addition, if you really want to get crazy with on-site redundancy, consider putting together a RAID system or similar.
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Synology Diskstation DS1512+ NAS Review on Techspot
Now that the problems with the flash memory on a few of the DS1512+ NAS models from Synology have apparently been solved, I thought it was time to take a look at some of the early reviews of this fast 5-drive NAS. The DS1512+ has five bays standard but is upgrade-able to a total of 15 hard drives with the addition of two of the DX-510 expansion boxes.…
Read more »4 TB Hard Drive for a NAS
With the coming of 4 terabyte hard drives, it was only a matter of time before they were certified by NAS manufacturers, such as Synology, for use in their NAS devices. As of this writing the 4 TB Seagate Hard Drive (ST4000DX000) is listed on the Synology Hard Drive Compatibility list for just about all the modern Synology NAS boxes.…
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