They (Coast Data) were not able to tell me that precisely. I spoke to a Sales lady who said she's not sure about the disks being included so you can safely assume NO DISKS, until you get there.


On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:16 AM, David Njuki <njukey@gmail.com> wrote:
Wash,

Does the cost you mentioned include the disks inside or only the enclosure? 


On 18 October 2012 14:50, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
Are you going to be doing manual backups? Sorry, but this is another indulging one!
Then my suggestion is that you consider THREE things:

1. Disk redundancy - if you have a single 2TB disk without RAID, you are sitting on a time-bomb. So it's better to have 2x2TB HDD
    in a RAID 1 (Mirror). Slow, but hopefully both disks wouldn't die on you at the same time! You could get a NAS with a capacity
    of 4 disks and do a RAID 5 or RAID10... it's upto you to decide on what RAID level you want, but RAID1 is the most basic and
    you shouldn't do without at least RAID1.
2. Space required - This equals the equivalent of the sum of the sizes of all the disks you are going to backup (at the extreme,
    assuming that you are going to create disk images. You can do the sizing yourself.
3. Network connectivity - it would be great if your NAS has a Gigabit interface to the LAN, and you have a Gigabit switch. Most
    computers these days have gigabit Ethernet anyway.

Your budget will determine the device you go for. I know of at least one D-Link device that has Gigabit LAN and takes 4 HDD.

Here are some details: http://sharecenter.dlink.com/products/DNS-343

Coast Data have it in stock at KES 34,950+VAT but they normally don't sell to end-users so you need to be smart:-)

PS: Please decide on how you are going to reply to e-mails, either top-post or bottom-post or inline and please weed out unnecessary text in the process. The way you've replied to two posts badly breaks the communication hierarchy, making posts difficult to follow.


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