I may be buying a crappy desktop to keep in my garage anyways so maybe I will go that route. What do you mean by age? Maybe I should have mentioned these drives are almost brand new? nothing has ever been on them really. I acquired them practically still in the package about a month ago. I get what you are saying about the rpms though. I will look into that card. Thanks for the info.uthornsfan wrote:Those drives are pretty worthless unless you put them in some form of RAID array. The 5400 spindle speed is going to kill you unless you are just using it for archival purposes and then the age will make you wary because the likely hood of failure is pretty high. If you have 3 of them I would recommend using them in RAID5 so you get a little bit or performance and some redundancy.
Either pony up the cash for a Synology (Best NAS for the money IMO) or find an old crappy computer and buy a SATA RAID 5 PCI card.
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- Fri Apr 25, 2014 4:12 pm
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- Thu Apr 24, 2014 8:58 pm
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nope all laptops that are used to frequently to keep stationary. I had 3 desktops I was given to try and recover but they were so old I tossed them earlier this week which prompted this excursion.uthornsfan wrote:http://www.freenas.org/
Do you have an old computer. You can make your own NAS with FreeNAS. Didn't have to be very powerful.
- Thu Apr 24, 2014 4:53 pm
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I have 3-4 500 GB Seagate Sata drives 5400 rpms
- Thu Apr 24, 2014 3:54 pm
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ok stupid question # (infinity symbol placed here) Are all drives raid capable ? what if the rpm are different speeds ? Is it as easy as formatting the drives and placing them inside? thats a rather large price tag, at least the ones i saw 174.00 and up to not be lazy! lol
- Thu Apr 24, 2014 3:53 pm
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Holy mother of god that thing has a price tag on it lol!
- Thu Apr 24, 2014 9:57 am
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Not all have an Ethernet connection though. I was seeing if anyone here has used an enclosure with an ethernet attached vs an external with ethernet
- Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:34 pm
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ethernet HD enclosure
I have a bunch of 3.5 HD laying around. Some of which have never been in a computer. I already have a 20.00 USB 2.0 enclosure on one. I currently have my router in a centralized location in my home which can have a network drive placed next to it.
Do they make a decent enclosure to place a HD I already own for networking backup? I am searching around google now and thought I would ask. Thanks in advance.
Do they make a decent enclosure to place a HD I already own for networking backup? I am searching around google now and thought I would ask. Thanks in advance.