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.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:24 PM, wa <wanangu@gmail.com> wrote:On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:What features are you looking for in the NAS?
Here is my advise: NASes come in different forms and all work in different ways. You can also build your own NAS if you have a computer and disks. What really matters are the features you are looking for. We call this "customer requirements", which is what a quotation need to fulfill. It's quite odd that a client would ask for something they don't know much about and a supplier pushes one down their throat.
So, start by telling us what purpose the NAS is supposed to serve on your network. We can then advise/quote.Wash,
the NAS in question is to serve as a pure backup mechanism,in cases of emergencies or disasters i can retrieve the backups and get back in operation in no time.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:27 AM, wa <wanangu@gmail.com> wrote:
_______________________________________________i need a quote for a network access storage of upto 2TB. please provide a list of available models.
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