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Thinking a Duo for backup duties?
Thinking of a 2d Duo(V1) for backup duties. Have 3 offers from newegg, but all have different warranty claims. Can anyone confirm differences? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 68221220...
mdgm,
Did not expect that big a reply. Let me try and answer at my speed (NAS). I have lived very happy with my rnd2150 since 2008. It runs today (with noisy fan) 24/7 just like when it was new in late 2008. Since learning the basics of it, I did get reminded by you and (now) PapaBear, and others about the need to 'backup' my NAS. No harm, no foul! I have been very lucky so far. I have read this forum chronically and was never able to backup my NAS to an external USB FreeAgent 500GB drive. Studied all of the normal solutions. The smartest solution was to get another NAS! I read and researched other ideas. I decided most were way too much overhead (external tasks) to make a FreeAgent 500GB external USB drive a useful 'backup' object. Never could get it to work. Accept Pilot-error! Did not care for let's format the FE via another client to ext2/3. Fine. Then what. Played with the intel tools to lock the FE always on. Fine. The tool works; and, now tasks a client to deal with the FE in the future(?). I still do not know that if I set the FE to 'always ON' that it will remain this way when I turn it OFF after any given monthly NAS 'backup' use. Fine. Accept what I need to do. Willing to go there. Another NAS!
I decided to just get another RND21xx; since, from my forum read(s), this seems to be the simplest, least quibble solution.
Understand what I will miss with the V2 ARM-based Duo. Speed advantage may be nice, but ATM, not needed for a 'backup' box. This solution means I have to track 2 different f/w levels. Doable certainly.
Understand what I will miss with the ATOM-based Ultra. Another f/w to track. Yes, I get intel-based hdw. I see this trend, but I really need a cheap 'backup' solution ATM. Should my current 24/7 2008 RND2150 dies, I will fully move to an 'ultra' replacement, or, whatever is current, and, available at that time.
Hope I have focused in on my current needs/expectations. Certainly, I'd love to kill 2 birds with 1 stone, but the thought of migrating my current RND2150 array to a current, modern, new family array just truly gives me a very big headache! Choose not to kick 'my sleeping dog' ATM.
I do now expect delivery of a new RND2110 sparc-based unit. Have spare 2d 500GB drive for it (orig. 2008 from Netgear!) for it. I can accept the wasted (unused) space on the tbd 1GB drive. In time, it will surely get used, as life rolls along!
Sorry for the long 'rant.'
Happy New Year! (but, I know you are already there! LOL!)
I just wish to backup my current active RND2150. Nothing more. This new task alone will be a very big deal for me.
Did not expect that big a reply. Let me try and answer at my speed (NAS). I have lived very happy with my rnd2150 since 2008. It runs today (with noisy fan) 24/7 just like when it was new in late 2008. Since learning the basics of it, I did get reminded by you and (now) PapaBear, and others about the need to 'backup' my NAS. No harm, no foul! I have been very lucky so far. I have read this forum chronically and was never able to backup my NAS to an external USB FreeAgent 500GB drive. Studied all of the normal solutions. The smartest solution was to get another NAS! I read and researched other ideas. I decided most were way too much overhead (external tasks) to make a FreeAgent 500GB external USB drive a useful 'backup' object. Never could get it to work. Accept Pilot-error! Did not care for let's format the FE via another client to ext2/3. Fine. Then what. Played with the intel tools to lock the FE always on. Fine. The tool works; and, now tasks a client to deal with the FE in the future(?). I still do not know that if I set the FE to 'always ON' that it will remain this way when I turn it OFF after any given monthly NAS 'backup' use. Fine. Accept what I need to do. Willing to go there. Another NAS!
I decided to just get another RND21xx; since, from my forum read(s), this seems to be the simplest, least quibble solution.
Understand what I will miss with the V2 ARM-based Duo. Speed advantage may be nice, but ATM, not needed for a 'backup' box. This solution means I have to track 2 different f/w levels. Doable certainly.
Understand what I will miss with the ATOM-based Ultra. Another f/w to track. Yes, I get intel-based hdw. I see this trend, but I really need a cheap 'backup' solution ATM. Should my current 24/7 2008 RND2150 dies, I will fully move to an 'ultra' replacement, or, whatever is current, and, available at that time.
Hope I have focused in on my current needs/expectations. Certainly, I'd love to kill 2 birds with 1 stone, but the thought of migrating my current RND2150 array to a current, modern, new family array just truly gives me a very big headache! Choose not to kick 'my sleeping dog' ATM.
I do now expect delivery of a new RND2110 sparc-based unit. Have spare 2d 500GB drive for it (orig. 2008 from Netgear!) for it. I can accept the wasted (unused) space on the tbd 1GB drive. In time, it will surely get used, as life rolls along!
Sorry for the long 'rant.'
Happy New Year! (but, I know you are already there! LOL!)
I just wish to backup my current active RND2150. Nothing more. This new task alone will be a very big deal for me.
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