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teknotoyz · 11-03-2005, 10:09 PM

Ok... I'm new to this. My IT guy at work talked me into the snap server as a NAS rather than the simpletech or other new consumer models. He was right! After reading some of this thread, I managed to determine either the 2000 or 4000 was the models of choice for me due to the ROM based OS. I just didn't want to mess with the idea of having to image a drive before using it (or replacing a dead drive hoping to get my data from any remaining drives). The model 2000 looked to have potential heat problems with the faster drives, so I picked the 4000. Anyway, a trip to EBAY has produced a $265 Snap 4000 with (4) 30 gig drives and SNAP os v4.0.860 and motherboard rev 2.0.1, BIOS 2.0.252 (I think I did well, these look to be newer versions). I just dropped 2 brand new 160gig drives into one of the drive caddy's (a WD and Seagate) and they formatted at 151 gigs each. GREAT! no problem with the LB48 size limitation then. I'll drop 2 more Maxtor 160GB drives tomorrow to finish it off at a total of 640GB of storage (about $400 total with new drives). NOW MY QUESTION FOR THE EXPERIENCED FOLKS: which RAID should I choose? I want data protection, so RAID 0 is out. I just don't know what to choose between RAID 1 or 5? I understand the mirror concept, but if RAID 5 gives me 75% of the drive space with protection, sounds tempting to me! (if I understood how RAID 5 works, I'd be more comfortable with it). Also, any way to set a drive sleep time? If anybody has any of the software that goes with this, let me know, I'd like to have the system complete (the seller included a disk with some files: assist, Snap_4_x.sup, snap_jvm.sup, snap_ServerSync.sup, and a pdf users manual). I wasn't sure what the .sup files are for, thoughts?

11-03-2005, 10:09 PM	#780
teknotoyz Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Buffalo, WV Posts: 7	Ok... I'm new to this. My IT guy at work talked me into the snap server as a NAS rather than the simpletech or other new consumer models. He was right! After reading some of this thread, I managed to determine either the 2000 or 4000 was the models of choice for me due to the ROM based OS. I just didn't want to mess with the idea of having to image a drive before using it (or replacing a dead drive hoping to get my data from any remaining drives). The model 2000 looked to have potential heat problems with the faster drives, so I picked the 4000. Anyway, a trip to EBAY has produced a $265 Snap 4000 with (4) 30 gig drives and SNAP os v4.0.860 and motherboard rev 2.0.1, BIOS 2.0.252 (I think I did well, these look to be newer versions). I just dropped 2 brand new 160gig drives into one of the drive caddy's (a WD and Seagate) and they formatted at 151 gigs each. GREAT! no problem with the LB48 size limitation then. I'll drop 2 more Maxtor 160GB drives tomorrow to finish it off at a total of 640GB of storage (about $400 total with new drives). NOW MY QUESTION FOR THE EXPERIENCED FOLKS: which RAID should I choose? I want data protection, so RAID 0 is out. I just don't know what to choose between RAID 1 or 5? I understand the mirror concept, but if RAID 5 gives me 75% of the drive space with protection, sounds tempting to me! (if I understood how RAID 5 works, I'd be more comfortable with it). Also, any way to set a drive sleep time? If anybody has any of the software that goes with this, let me know, I'd like to have the system complete (the seller included a disk with some files: assist, Snap_4_x.sup, snap_jvm.sup, snap_ServerSync.sup, and a pdf users manual). I wasn't sure what the .sup files are for, thoughts? Last edited by teknotoyz; 11-03-2005 at 10:15 PM.