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Home Network Data Storage Device

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-do-you-recommend dept.

It happened again- a machine on my home network died. Taking with it tons of data. It's mostly backed up. No huge loss. But I finally think it's time to get some sort of network raid disk. A unified place to safely store data accessible to the numerous machines on my home lan. So now I pose to Slashdot readers- what are your recommendations? I'm looking for something with RAID and SMB sharing. At least a quarter TB, probably a half, but with some room to grow. What have you used? What works? What fails?

2 of 649 comments (clear)

  1. Re:2.5 Terabytes of storage by Steev · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, I know...I live in Canada. Born and raised. I just think that joke is still funny :)

  2. Re:The Poor Man's RAID Array by JohnFluxx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1000amps.. I've just had to change a 1000amp plug at work (I work with lasers). A 1000amp plug is an interesting thing. It took half a day to do it ;) The plug is about 30cm long, and 20 cm wide and takes wires which are 2cm thick for each strand. (The one I had was 3 phase and used 5 wires including ground.)

    We also have an office in Vilnius, Lithuania (eastern europe), and we end up getting our power from 3 separate power stations.