NAS Replacement

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Socoder -> Off Topic -> NAS Replacement
Sun, 19 Jul 2015, 00:05
Jayenkai	About 6 years ago, or thereabouts, I bought a Buffalo Linkstation, and as handy as it is, it's starting to get a little creaky. Lately it's gotten to the point where drag'n'dropping an in-dev folder will take about 10 minutes to copy across, and for my dev, that's not exactly a lot of data being transferred.. So I finally took the plunge and picked up a nice shiny new NAS drive. A Western Digital "My Cloud" 4Tb drive. It arrived on Thursday, the same time as my Treadmill, and I immediately got it hooked up, and started the inevitably lengthy transfer process. PC to NAS tests show a nice speedy flow of data, and reads and writes are much much quicker than the crapped out Buffalo was. Deleting files seems to take longer.. Not sure what that's all about, but I'm guessing it's probably a good thing.. Maybe.. shrugs DLNA access is also pretty much realtime. Drag the video file over, and it becomes accessible from DLNA clients. This is in comparison to the Buffalo where you had to rescan the entire drive any time you added new media to the thing. All in all, it's a lovely new drive, and it's nice and fast. ... Which brings us to the backup. The Buffalo was, as I suggested, getting a little bit knackered, and even reading of files was slow and clunky. We're now on Day #4. FileZilla crashed at some point (?) Friday night, so Saturday I switched to "FreeFileSync" on the Mac. It seems to be running a little more stable than FileZilla did, and hopefully will remember where it's up to, should it randomly crash like FileZilla did! If it comes across a large'ish file, it's nice and fast at copying. But bloody hell, my backups are choc-full of teensy tiny files, and each and every file from the Buffalo has about half-a-second before it'll transfer. It's INSANE how long this has taken! Part of me is now going "Probably should've bought a proper NAS server with removable drives" .. meh.. hindsight.. Still, we learn from our mistakes. If you feel the need to replace your NAS drive, be sure to get something that allows you to quickly and easily make a clone of all your old stuff, or it'll take forever to do it all. Bah, humbug.. This is my second "Waiting for Backups" event recently.. What has my life become!?! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sun, 19 Jul 2015, 06:21
steve_ancell	What cheeses me off is my 1TB WD Passport drive that cost near to £70, and yet it's slower than sending mail on a donkey through a desert.
Sun, 19 Jul 2015, 06:30
Jayenkai	Some of these drives are silly in their speeds. At the same time, you could opt for a super-server NAS thing, but at that kind of price, I might as well buy a new frickin' PC, and have it on all day!! Silly prices!! Nah, this seems fast enough. It's not "super fast", but compared to the Buffalo it's a massive increased.. I can now listen to multiple episodes of Just A Minute without the iPad crashing between episodes, because the damn files took so long to start streaming!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sun, 19 Jul 2015, 08:14
rockford	I have a WD passport too. It really is an awful POS HD isn't it? As for NAS drives, I always have the feeling that I should have one due to the amount of media I have, but generally I just use multiple large capacity HDs. Hopefully once backed-up yours will last a fair while Jay.
Sat, 25 Jul 2015, 15:15
Jayenkai	There we go! .. and it only took a week and a half!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sat, 25 Jul 2015, 15:52
Jayenkai	I certainly wouldn't need 2x4Tb of storage! I've got over a decade's worth of Game/Music/Web dev/Amiga disks and more, all wrapped up into less than 1Tb.. That also includes practically all of Star Trek (Even that shitty DS9!) Corner Gas, House, Breaking Bad, Mythbusters, South Park and more!! The only thing that isn't on here is my epic Stargate DVD collection, but that's only because I can't be arsed ripping all those damn discs!! Oh, and all my music and photos, too! Yeah, I've jam packed this thing, and it's still only 1/4 full!!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sat, 25 Jul 2015, 16:37
Jayenkai	Point one If both drives are equally worked, due to constant mirroring, and both drives were installed at the same time, then it is in fact very likely that the lifespan of one drive would be fairly close to the lifespan of the other... Point two House fire, explosion, other disasterous event... Having two drives ain't gonna help no-one!! But, \o/yeay\o/, backups!!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sat, 25 Jul 2015, 17:41
steve_ancell	Jayenkai House fire, explosion, other disasterous event... Having two drives ain't gonna help no-one!! Unless you have a family member who's willing to hook one of them up to their router.
Sun, 26 Jul 2015, 04:47
steve_ancell	This place claims to do free cloud storage, but I have a feeling that also means your stuff becomes free for everyone else on the system. Either that or justcloud end up with rights to your stuff. www.justcloud.com/
Sun, 26 Jul 2015, 05:08
steve_ancell	Just found this, it seems that justcloud really sucks. justcloudsucks.net/reviews/
Sun, 26 Jul 2015, 13:57
Dabz	To be honest, I do appreciate these online services do a good job on the back up front, but I like my important data being my data, I can control it... I wouldn't photocopy my tax files, bank statements, receipts etc and just hand them to any company, once I'm done with them sorta things, their shredded, by me... I would never trust a company out there to delete my stuff forever, even if they said it is! Information is worth too much money to just 'delete it' it Dabz --- To be honest, I do appreciate these online services do a good job on the back up front, but I like my important data being my data, I can control it... I wouldn't photocopy my tax files, bank statements, receipts etc and just hand them to any company, once I'm done with them sorta things, their shredded, by me... I would never trust a company out there to delete my stuff forever, even if they said it is! Information is worth too much money to just "delete it" it Dabz -=-=- Intel Core i5 6400 2.7GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB), 8Gig DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, Windows 10 64bit