Comments on: Approaches for home network storage https://dfarq.homeip.net/approaches-for-home-network-storage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=approaches-for-home-network-storage David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Wed, 12 Jul 2017 02:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steve Aubrey https://dfarq.homeip.net/approaches-for-home-network-storage/#comment-7109 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:51:14 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3826#comment-7109 “robocopy” from “robohara”?

Couldn’t help but notice the similarity. I understand the words are from different origins, but it still makes me smile.

]]> By: robohara https://dfarq.homeip.net/approaches-for-home-network-storage/#comment-7106 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:45:17 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3826#comment-7106 I guess my solution was closest to the last one you mentioned. I have a server upstairs that does double/triple/quadruple duty. It does a lot of things most people need, so just pretend it’s just a server. I added a SATA card with 4 additional ports. I already had a spare tower, so I slapped four 1TB drives inside it. (There’s no mobo or anything in there; just drives.) Then I bought 4 3′ SATA cables, which run out of my server and into the other slave tower.

When you start putting that much data in one space, you’ve GOT to do backups. I run RAID5, which protects against single hard drive failure, but not the deletion of files. My main protection against that is, I only give my wife and kids read-only access to my mp3s, movies, and digital pictures. It may sound harsh, but that keeps them from accidentally deleting anything. I then have nightly backup jobs to back up my essentials (home directory, digital pictures, and mp3s) to a spare 2TB drive. I’ve tried several fancy backup programs, but ultimately I found a batch file calling robocopy does the trick pretty well (/MIR for the win).

I just added a StarTech RAID enclosure that supports 4 drives (up to 2TB each), hardware RAID (0/1/3/5/10), and USB/eSATA/Firewire. The box without drives was $249 — high if you already have a spare PC lying around, but not bad for a complete, self-contained drive storage solution.

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