NLC - Centralised Media Data Storage

Dark · Post by **Dark** » Thu May 02, 2013 2:20 pm

campbell wrote:Is Buffalo gear an offshoot from Cisco?

No, Buffalo are separate.
Linksys were the consumer division of Cisco but they got sold to Belkin in March.

Post by **campbell** » Thu May 02, 2013 2:39 pm

ah, that's who I was thinking of

sorry! I'll get back to my wet-string-lashup...

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Thu May 02, 2013 2:59 pm

campbell wrote:Is Buffalo gear an offshoot from Cisco?

As much as Linksys is, a consumer brand bought by them. IIRC I have seen a buffalo NAS go pop and recovery via sys admins who were up for a challenge failed due to proprietary file system. Or they could not work out the FS.

All depends on how you use it and the environment it is kept in. Terrabytes of data (mainly HD video, gigabit lan helps for this) are moved monthly on my drives and anything that matters is kept in triplicate on 3 different systems in on two different mains feeds. Fans & mboards on the machines are diarised to be cleaned quarterly, HDD temps are monitored and lots of automated tasks run to defrag, backup, reboot, check disks throughout the mouth.

If you have a terrabyte of relatively static data that you just add to e.g. music/photos most of these will be fine, start spanking them for long periods and then they start to fail.

Just make sure that anything that counts is backed up and taken offsite and verified.

2p

Post by **campbell** » Thu May 02, 2013 3:32 pm

The voice of an experienced Data Centre Manager there.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Thu May 02, 2013 3:44 pm

campbell wrote:The voice of an experienced Data Centre Manager there.

You cannot be the one at blame

Have a few rack mount servers I would like to run at home but really are too fecking noisy to keep up and running. CPUs in them are designed for virtualisation which if you have some time is pretty interesting. Dedicated VM for storage, VoIP, media streamer, playing with new OS e.g. Ubuntu releases etc. Bloody CPU in my home server not liking VMware though

Couple of generations old, buttons on fleabay and lots and lots of redundancy. Chuck it in the garage and run a couple of lengths of CAT5.

Post by **campbell** » Thu May 02, 2013 3:55 pm

Are you going to turn the Facility into a Server Farm?!?!

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Thu May 02, 2013 3:56 pm

campbell wrote:Are you going to turn the Facility into a Server Farm?!?!

It has crossed my mind on several occasions.

Peter · Post by **Peter** » Fri May 03, 2013 12:28 pm

Innovative way of dealing with your heating bills...

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Fri May 03, 2013 12:38 pm

Peter wrote:Innovative way of dealing with your heating bills...

Before I built fitted out the server room* at home it used to be freezing cold, so cold that I would use it to keep my beer cold in winter.
Now it has a PC, server NAS, Switch router and twin monitors it's the warmest room* in the house.

*cupboard / old staffroom toilet.

Post by **pete** » Fri May 03, 2013 9:24 pm

BiggestNizzy wrote:
Peter wrote:Innovative way of dealing with your heating bills...
Before I built fitted out the server room* at home it used to be freezing cold, so cold that I would use it to keep my beer cold in winter.
Now it has a PC, server NAS, Switch router and twin monitors it's the warmest room* in the house.

*cupboard / old staffroom toilet.

Nizzy doesn't allow his staff to use the family toilet.

Kelvin · Post by **Kelvin** » Sat May 04, 2013 9:18 am

My Windows Home Server failed recently and I was having some difficulty fixing it so looked at replacing it with a NAS solution eventually settling on Synology DS413J. Managed to fix the WHS so didn't buy it but the Synology kit looks very impressive.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sat May 04, 2013 9:25 am

V nice kit.

Post by **campbell** » Sat May 04, 2013 9:49 am

+1 here too.

Thanks for doing the homework, Kelvin - when our XP server lets go, I know what I'm buying!

DLNA and i-device controls / apps are winners for me.

I take it's got trusty old Linux behind it?

Kelvin · Post by **Kelvin** » Sat May 04, 2013 11:24 am

Dunno. I expect so. They call their OS DSM and you can run a demo of it on their website. One of the great features of WHS is its ability to image backup all the computers connected to it automatically. There' s no easy way to achieve the same thing with a NAS. I know you can get around it in other ways but I've had a disk or two fail in our laptops and recovery was really easy.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sat May 04, 2013 5:08 pm

I think Willie Fairhurst runs one, I recall him mentioning it on Facebook.

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