bazcabs Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 As you will see in this thread I am a robocopy fan but recently I've started showing allwaysync to people as it has a good interface and loads of options to backup or sync data to another place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katman Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 Don't really use anything at home. At work, we just have desktop PC's no Servers or anything fancy and we use Click Free External Hard Drives for backup. You plug them into a USB Socket and they get on with it. http://www.clickfree.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatdamaged Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 Livedrive is £35 a year, i've set it up for 3 people at work and they are absolutely delighted with it Fast, easy to use, unlimited space. i tried lots of backup solutions including Mozy etc and didn't really get on with any of them. Livedrive has been by far the best investment i have made to secure all my irreplaceable photos and videos External HDDs and RAID sets are all well and good, i've got a LSI Megaraid Raid controller with 8 x 1.5TB drives in RAID5, but what happens if i am burgled, or there is a fire? All very unlikely of course, but i like knowing my data is offsite, securely backed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 All very unlikely of course, but i like knowing my data is offsite, securely backed up. Yep, I like offsite too. I use google, but have a livedrive account. They're both very good but I like the face recognition from Google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pragmatopian Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 ...I've got a LSI Megaraid Raid controller with 8 x 1.5TB drives in RAID5... At home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatdamaged Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 Yeah, got the card off Ebay a few years ago for £80. Can't complain really. 1.5TB drives fairly cheap nowadays as well It's used as a media centre, movies, music, house documents etc Overkill on storage really, but i don't have to worry about running out of space for a few years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victorian dad Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 I use a Drobo drive with 4 x 1TB, might have to upgrade to 4 x 2TB drives soon though, soon fills up with movie rips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatdamaged Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 Interesting, how does it deal with a failed drive etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victorian dad Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 Interesting, how does it deal with a failed drive etc? The Drobo spreads the data over all the drives, if one fails you just take it out & slide a new one in & it, so with 4TB you only get 2TB actual storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Git Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 Interesting, how does it deal with a failed drive etc? The Drobo spreads the data over all the drives, if one fails you just take it out & slide a new one in & it, so with 4TB you only get 2TB actual storage. It's a bit more than that. I've a 4 bay Drobo and and should have 2.7 TB according to http://drobo.com/resources/drobocalculator.php (my Drobo is at home) The newer 5 and 8 bay ones would give you a load more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victorian dad Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 Interesting, how does it deal with a failed drive etc? The Drobo spreads the data over all the drives, if one fails you just take it out & slide a new one in & it, so with 4TB you only get 2TB actual storage. It's a bit more than that. I've a 4 bay Drobo and and should have 2.7 TB according to http://drobo.com/resources/drobocalculator.php (my Drobo is at home) The newer 5 and 8 bay ones would give you a load more My states 2.7TB, but I can't see how that works though. But it's a great system & easy to use , if a little expensive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbx Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 2.7 TB from 4 disks is easy. Assume a 1 TB disk formats to about 930Gb, then if the drobo uses Raid 5 for it's storage this is using 1 disk for the parity and not main storage. thus you actually get 3 * 930Gb = 2.79TB seeemples......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatdamaged Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 2.7 TB from 4 disks is easy. Assume a 1 TB disk formats to about 930Gb, then if the drobo uses Raid 5 for it's storage this is using 1 disk for the parity and not main storage. thus you actually get 3 * 930Gb = 2.79TB seeemples......... Ah i see, i did expect it to use RAID5, but the Amazon.co.uk description didn't mention it "Drobo is the world's first storage robot. Data Robotics. Get rid of multiple external drives. Avoid the complexity of RAID. Attach a Drobo storage robot to your system and let it manage your storage so you don't have to. No software required. No RAID levels. No management or configuration. Drobo does everything for you." Still, nice and easy i guess - no PC required! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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