That is they way the new Western Digital network servers I am now using work. I have a 2Tb at home and at the store and the boss has a 4TB at home. Everything backs up automatically to his server and mine on a regular basis. Each of the servers is a two drive unit with automatic mirroring between drives. None of the machines any longer retain data files on the work computers. It is all maintained on the servers and so available when and where we need it. We have already run success tests from both portable computers as well accessing all 3 servers over the Internet from several locations.
I just got tired of trying to recover data from crashed hard drives and so spent a couple of months researching and setting up the most reliable system I could find and everything was way less than the data recover charges for his last crashed drive. My biggest problem was making the whole thing invisible and automatic because none of them are technically capable enough to operate a complex system. The WD system takes a little setup work but after that it is easy for the average user to work with.
JWE
Long Beach, CA
Nov 27, 2010 02:35:07 PM, gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com wrote:
James
That's what I like about my NAS RAID. The second disk is a mirror of the other. Data is lost only if both were to fail at the same time.
I finally finished my Vista re-install. For some reason it took me almost two days to get the printer driver to install correctly.
JohnW
--- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, James Early wrote:
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> I tried a similar system some years ago. It cost the company $3500 to recover the bosses critical email and excel data from the failed drive. He now agrees with me that it is a whole lot cheaper to buy a new drive every 36 months for $100 than to pay the hard drive recovery people their fees. Point is it is a rare drive that fails in under 40 months of use. It is also an even more rare dive that lasts more than 48 months in service. So my current policy is to replace all service drives either working or backup every 36 months and super critical data is backed to a flash drive on a monthly basis.
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> I was very lucky that I had made my objections clear to the boss on both of his last 2 objections to my designed data recovery program. Now I just have to hope he remembers the pain he suffered on his last 2 system drive crashes before the next drive replacement date.
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> JWE
> Long Beach, CA
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