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Recent content by imweasel

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    Need advice for a nas device...

    Anyone recommend a good 2 bay enclosure (non-raid) and a couple of 2tb hard drives? Is it possible to use the qnap and the synology enclosures without the raid and mount each drive separately? And use their back up software that comes with the enclosures? Or does their back up software only work...
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    Need advice for a nas device...

    So would just keeping 2 external drives hooked up be the best solution and copy files to both of them? The PC that would be used for this doesn't have esata or usb3.0. It would be simple, that's for sure. I suppose I could simply buy a dual bay enclosure, hook it up to the network and mount...
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    Need advice for a nas device...

    I could, but I don't feel like keeping 2 external drives hanging around. I would also like to automate it as much as possible. With automated backups going to an external drive and click and dropping files to the nas makes it as easy as I can make it to use. This will be a repository for...
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    Need advice for a nas device...

    I want to keep it simple and possibly on the cheap side. This will be primarily used for an xp laptop. It will store video (a lot of it proprietary video) and a few images. I would like any suggestions from: A simple 2 bay NAS enclosure (byod) to hold 2x2TB drives running RAID1 with...
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