Most of the things have been plumbing related, which I hate.<\/p>\n
The most recent breakdown came as a bit of a surprise. My primary NAS drive has decided to take a dump. <\/p>\n
We use this drive to serve up movies, and store important documents. It’s also used as a share point for things that I help the other half with, music, videos, web sites, etc.<\/p>\n
I’ve been noticing little things lately when accessing the drive, but didn’t really think much about it. In retrospect the drive was telling me something was wrong.<\/p>\n
As the issues and errors accumulated I started re-evaluating the entire storage method. After doing a lot of research, I’ve decided to go with a RAID array.<\/p>\n
The unit i’ve settled on is relatively inexpensive, but seems to provide a lot of bang for the buck.<\/p>\n
Configuring it will take some time and the unit may have a steep learning curve. The advantage is that I’ll have 16TB of storage when it’s fully configured and that storage provides 2 hot swappable drives.<\/p>\n
That means that up to two drives could fail and the entire 16TB would still be recoverable.<\/p>\n
My current situation is a single drive and I have no idea how much data I’ll be able to recover.<\/p>\n
What I’m doing may be overkill but I’d like to not have to worry about it for the next 5 years.<\/p>\n
I’m also leaning more toward doing gig work and having a ton of space to work with would be a big convenience.<\/p>\n
I expect to be locked into some form of digital prison for at least the next week while I bring this puppy online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most of the things have been plumbing related, which I hate. The most recent breakdown came as a bit of a surprise. My primary NAS drive has decided to take a dump. We use this drive to serve up movies, and store important documents. It’s also used as a share point for things that I … <\/p>\n