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Storage / Re: NAS and OS/2?
« on: February 03, 2015, 01:51:16 pm »
Mark, you have two choices.
1) Buy a 2 or 4 bay NAS and disks and you are ready to go.
2) Build your own which requires getting the hardware and some way of putting it all together plus setting up the software.
Adding to what I said in choice 1. All of the NAS boxes I have seen and used have a web interface that is accessed via a browser - all the win based program does is find the IP of the unit and then access the web interface. The D-Link units we use to supplement our HP storage array have a gigabit network interface and are fully configurable. They also incorporate an FTP server and other services that we don't use. Some date from 2006 and have been running 24/7 since then. The one instance we had when a disk went down it was just a matter of pulling it and pushing in the replacement - the RAID 1 rebuilt itself in the background without any problem.
1) Buy a 2 or 4 bay NAS and disks and you are ready to go.
2) Build your own which requires getting the hardware and some way of putting it all together plus setting up the software.
Adding to what I said in choice 1. All of the NAS boxes I have seen and used have a web interface that is accessed via a browser - all the win based program does is find the IP of the unit and then access the web interface. The D-Link units we use to supplement our HP storage array have a gigabit network interface and are fully configurable. They also incorporate an FTP server and other services that we don't use. Some date from 2006 and have been running 24/7 since then. The one instance we had when a disk went down it was just a matter of pulling it and pushing in the replacement - the RAID 1 rebuilt itself in the background without any problem.