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| New Hardware for the New Year; GigE switch and RAID-1 or 5 capable NAS | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 1 2008, 06:30 AM (256 Views) | |
| Axtremus | Jan 1 2008, 06:30 AM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Looking to upgrade the 'ol home LAN with a 4- or 8-port 10/100/1000 Ethernet switch, and a RAID-1 (preferably RAID-5) capable network attached storage with hot-swappable drives that have built-in support for FTP, AFP (Apple file sharing), SMB (Windows file sharing), and hopefully NFS. Any recommendation on GigE switch? Something known to be rock solid stable that I can cable it up once, kick it under the table, and never have to touch it again? I'm looking at this for external storage: http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10953 It's got RAID-1 but no RAID-5, and no NFS support. The four-drive system that does RAID-5 still seems a tad too expensive (> twice as costly) for me for the home LAN. I've used a few external harddisks (mostly Maxtor, and one Acomdata). They all develop problems within 12~18 months of use. Hopefully LACIE can do better (hey, it comes with 3 year warranty, while the others all came with one year each), and the RAID-1 setup coupled with a more disciplined end-of-life management on my part can avoid the next HD problem induced data-loss heart-ache. So what do ya think? A great way to start 2008, yes?
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| Axtremus | Jan 2 2008, 05:22 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Oh well... placed orders on the Lacie, a Dell PowerConnect 2708 GigE switch, and an 8-pack 7-ft CAT-5e Ethernet cables (CHEAP!). It's only the second day of 2008 and I'm already set to increase my home LAN's switching capacity by 160,000%. Booyah!
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| jon-nyc | Jan 2 2008, 05:25 AM Post #3 |
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Cheers
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Sorry dude, I'm a total luddite. I don't even have a home network. Still trying to get my 4mb token ring cards to work with my Lisa... |
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| Frank_W | Jan 2 2008, 05:30 AM Post #4 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Me too, Jon. I can usually fix whatever's wrong with my computer, when it has problems, but as far as knowing hardware or building my own system, fuggedabouddit!!
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Axtremus | Jan 2 2008, 05:43 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Oh, yeah, J.R.R. invented that in the 50's.
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| The 89th Key | Jan 2 2008, 06:34 AM Post #6 |
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Ax - sounds like you are going to have quite a nice set up there! I'm also looking around for an NAS set up (500gb-1tb) gigabite ethernet, etc, etc, etc....but you are leaps and bounds ahead of me in that respect. Let me know how it works once you have it set up. |
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