If it were me I would certainly take the price into consideration, as it all depends on what you are backing up.
If you are running a small business from home, or have documents that you can't lose then this would be a viable option.
If its just personal files/photos/media, would it not be best to buy a spindle of CDs and come up with some rotation system for backup?
It would have its benefits.
1. cheaper 2. less can go wrong 3. probably less prone to weathering (does the garage get extremely hot during the summer? 4. less enticing to any thieves 5. doesn't cost anything to run!
Maybe I'm too naïve, but I'd favour CD/DVD media as backup over a server!
J
-----Original Message----- From: main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Chris G Sent: 24 August 2009 13:39 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] A low powered backup solution probably/possibly.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:36:36AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:34:17AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
Synaptic, Qnap and IcyBox all offer NAS servers which handle NFS as
Oops, that's Synology not Synaptic.
A little further research on Google (especially the reviews and comparisons found at www.smallnetbuilder.com) has led me to the Western Digital My Book World Edition II. Price for a 2Tb version of this is about £215, it has ssh access built in, no hacking needed, power consumption is 16 watts when active, 5 watts when idle. The performance is not quite as good as the top of the range Synology and Qnap ones but it's *way* cheaper.
£215 for a low powered Linux box with 2Tb of storage seems excellent value to me.
So I'm off to buy one and will report back when I've played with it a little (if anyone is interested).