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Share your successful ReadyNAS hardware setup
Please post your successful hardware setup you employ with your ReadyNAS so others who are new to the ReadyNAS world can model their environment after yours. Any useful advice for the newbies would b...
This is a business setup so I'm going to leave some items out.
Rack 1:
Rack 1 is connected to Rack 2 with a 2Gbs fiber optic back haul to another building.
Rack 2:
With this setup, I was able to replace a 200GB Snap Server and a tape drive. The tape drive has now been turned off and all my backups are strictly disk based now thanks to rsync.
Rack 1:
- Three Dell PowerEdge 2950 Windows 2003 Servers
- Three Dell PowerConnect 2724 switches
- APC UPS with 8 hours of external battery (I've tested it!)
- Pelco DVR
- Small APC UPS for router and modems
- Two Netopia DSL modems
- Cisco RV042 dual router to tie the two modems together
- ReadyNAS Pro with six 1.5TB HDs in Raid 6 configuration and Adaptive Load Balancing (main file server)
Rack 1 is connected to Rack 2 with a 2Gbs fiber optic back haul to another building.
Rack 2:
- ReadyNAS Pro with six 1.5TB HDs in Raid 6 configuration and Adaptive Load Balancing (backup)
- Dell PowerConnect 2848 switch
With this setup, I was able to replace a 200GB Snap Server and a tape drive. The tape drive has now been turned off and all my backups are strictly disk based now thanks to rsync.
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