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Originally Posted by blue68f100
Now the SnapOS does not support any OS past XP so Vista or Win7 are out..
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Interesting, I'm running Win7 and am able access my 4000 just fine from there.
I understand about RAID, it's capabilities and it's requirements. I'm a systems engineer and have worked with storage systems for almost 20 years from individual drives to large SAN arrays.
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Originally Posted by max8
You are mental if you do not duplicate your data across a couple of systems or USB Drives
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Max, I agree with you. I usually use a combination of offline disk drives, (usually SCSI due to their inherent higher MTBF and I've always had the best luck with them) archival CD & DVD, (it MUST be archival grade or they degrade after about 3 years) USB memory sticks (these also start to degrade after a few years), and my active copies so I tend to have 3 offline copies of important files.
And no, this is for personal private use, not a business. I just want a (relatively) reliable storage area for files and the Snap was cheap. I just missed out getting a full blown NetApp Filer we surplussed at work, that would have been great but someone else's name got pulled out of the hat. My plan is to upgrade the power supply, fans, and disks. I'm not too worried about the 10/100 link speed so that's not a factor.
Good comments so far, we'll see what comes in over night.