mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 23 2007 | nas, iomega, hard drive, shopping, review
Review of a NAS device I'm considering. I don't like that
a) It is difficult to find out that a drive has failed.
b) If you lose a drive, you can't rebuild without losing all your data.Quoted: In this review I'll try out Iomega's one-terabyte StorCenter, a dual-drive, gigabit-capable NAS device that supports RAID level 1. This model has fewer features than the NAS devices in Iomega's "Pro" line, but on the plus side, it offers basic NAS functionality and can be picked up for under $400 for a Terabyte of storage!
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 26 2008 | storage, nas, shopping, technology
Quoted: When one of the hard drives was removed all data was still secure. The only noticeable difference was that the Alert LED went on. If we reinserted the “dead” hard drive the MobileSTOR was smart enough to recognize it and realize that no rebuild was necessary (recognize / quick test phase was about 5 seconds). However if we formatted second drive before insertion the enclosure was even smart enough to know that it needed to rebuild the array which it did so almost immediately (once again after 5 or so seconds). Just as when first created the Array rebuild time took about 2.5 hours to complete. Overall, this is amazingly good performance for an enclosure in this price range and can be considered an easy PASS.
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Quoted: The enclosure indicates that the drive is not working by flashing the LED on the drive door red. At the same time, you still can access the data on the other drive but of course any data stored now will not be mirrored until the drive is fixed. When we put the drive in again after formatting it on another computer, the MobileSTOR MS2UTN+B directly started to rebuild the array, this time blinking the LED red and purple. A rebuild takes the same amount of time as the first time you set up the array.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 24 2007 | nas, hard drive, shopping
This model looks pretty good. It is $300 at Buy.Com after $30 rebate.
Quoted: The G-Force MegaDisk NAS also supports robust RAID disk configurations including RAID 0, RAID 1, JBOD, and SPAN. There are dual USB 2.0 expansion ports that enable the attachment of printers to the MegaDisk NAS, which can be used in conjunction with the integrated print server transforming USB printers into shared network devices. Also included is an unattended Bit Torrent download manager, allowing large downloads to be scheduled for non-disruptive off-peak hours.
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- btreloar - Sep 26 2007
You must be Mohit's friend before you can comment on this Fave.You need a RAID 5 device. RAID 1 just doesn't cut it.
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