Setting up a NAS

Volt · 04-23-2010, 12:00 PM

I run 2 of the ReadyNas at my office and take care of a lawyer and doctors office. Small company requirements are very unique as compared to the domain setup a larger office might have.

The NAS have nice redundancy in the RAID and feed the clients fairly fast. Based on my clients needs I have them backing the NAS up to single drive external drives (ethernet or USB depending on their budget). Redundant drives ARE NOT a backup plan. Buildings burn and multiple drives can fail. Always have off site backups. My lawyer and doctors clients for obvious reasons do not allow cloud storage.

The NAS are setup with passwords for some level of protection. This setup is technology low and works well for my smaller businesses using the KISS method. A few gigs... Both way to low and prolly not avalaible. Remember in a RAID setup 4 250G drives do not equate to 1T of storage. Better to have too much than to go small and spend more in 2 years because the drives are full.

If you need more specics, PM me and I'll help where I can.

04-23-2010, 12:00 PM	#6
Volt I'm nuts for the place Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 2,799 Trading: (19)	Re: Setting up a NAS I run 2 of the ReadyNas at my office and take care of a lawyer and doctors office. Small company requirements are very unique as compared to the domain setup a larger office might have. The NAS have nice redundancy in the RAID and feed the clients fairly fast. Based on my clients needs I have them backing the NAS up to single drive external drives (ethernet or USB depending on their budget). Redundant drives ARE NOT a backup plan. Buildings burn and multiple drives can fail. Always have off site backups. My lawyer and doctors clients for obvious reasons do not allow cloud storage. The NAS are setup with passwords for some level of protection. This setup is technology low and works well for my smaller businesses using the KISS method. A few gigs... Both way to low and prolly not avalaible. Remember in a RAID setup 4 250G drives do not equate to 1T of storage. Better to have too much than to go small and spend more in 2 years because the drives are full. If you need more specics, PM me and I'll help where I can. __________________ Curing the infection... One bullet at a time.