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I keep hearing that, and while I'm sure there's absolutely some truth to that, what options, in terms of manufacturers, exist today?

Most of the drives I buy are WD. I'd rather take a chance and get two of theirs from the same batch than giving Seagate any money.

dandy72 wrote:
How late to this party am I?

Which party? The one of living dangerous without backups? Smile | :)

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Yes.

I made a resolution to put more things off about 40 years ago, and I haven't got around to making another since then.

Will Rogers never met me.

TBH I never make new year solutions either. I just posted the whole thing just to get an idea how many people have stopped burning DVDs altogether.

Is It too early to bring up new year resolutions?

I could say the exact same thing about my lunch, although with more sincerity.

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

I only burn bootables for disaster recovery.
Otherwise, like others, it has been many years.
Synology makes a nice RAID box.

Also, I found a great program called "Everything" from VoidTools
that will (has) indexed my entire NAS. So I can quickly find anything by searching against filenames and extensions... Fabulous for finding every instance of the same file as well...

But switching to a big NAS was a nice switch.

HTH,

Kirk Out!

I've looked at Synology's products before, and I never found I could justify the money they want for what is essentially an enclosure with empty drive bays and a fancy RAID controller.

I'm not saying I wouldn't love to have one though. Or two.

I would ALMOST Agree, but I had a cheap RAID from WD that FAILED BADLY.

(I was literally having issues getting the backup to NOT Take the estimated 34 days!).

So, I splurged for what seemed to be an "expensive" RAID box. I have to tell you that I am quite happy with this. The DSM Updates, the reminders, the installable software. The BACKUP software and the ability to schedule it. The USB3 ports on the back. So, my Synology is partitioned into 2 sides, safe and unsafe. I do NOT backup the unsafe stuff. It is a dumping ground.

But I do backup my machine to a specific share, with a specific username/password (preventing ransomware from potentially encrypting my backups). And it's backups are not available to the connections, which is nice.

Along the way, I had an icon library in ZIP format. Unzipping was taking forever due to the network traffic/etc. I was able to enable a telnet connection, get in, and locally unzip the files. I WAS SOLD. I reduced literally 4 days to 2-4hrs, much of which ran without much work from me. And it did not tie up my computer/network.

Same thing for when I re-partitioned for backup reasons. Dialing into the OS, and moving files there was so much more efficient.

A well designed Tool, across the board. Factor in what I think my time is worth, and this unit has paid for itself.

The ONLY thing I did NOT like was when I upgraded from 1TB to 4TB drives. Each drive replacement forced a rebuild. It took many days to complete. I now own an EXTERNAL DISK DUPLICATOR. (which takes about 1 day per disk, it feels like). If I had to upgrade again, I would duplicate all the disks, and just put the new disks back in. Praying that it worked, or reverting back to the old disks.... But upgrading a RAID in place is NEVER an easy task. But it did handle it properly, and it has been fine ever since...

YMMV... But even though it was expensive, it saves me time by have very little management overhead, and reminding me to run scans and update its firmware/software/etc.

Thanks for the long post. Rather informative.

What you've described is exactly what makes me nervous about these fancier setups: it sounds like it's loaded with proprietary technology. If the device itself dies (as opposed to just a drive), and the warranty's out, that would mean having to purchase another one, right? Or is there a way you could you access your data on the individual drives without it?

To be honest, I don't know. But then again, this is why I have backup Smile | :)

I would contact synology and PRAY that buying either a NEW empty unit MIGHT work, or find a refurb of this model. (A quick review on their site indicates that putting the disks in a newer unit is ACTUALLY possible, albeit non-trivial because you have to work a bit to upgrade the DSM and software, etc. But that is good news).

As happy as I am with Synology at this point, I would gladly buy a new unit without disks and move them over.

BTW, a friend setup a PAIR of them for a Client in NY and FL. And they use the sync features to keep them updated. So when they operate their business from FL as snowbirds, all their files are there, and that worked well too... I know about 5 people with them who all have nothing but good things to say about them. FWIW...

Quite late. Gave up bothering burning to DVD years ago.
Found that I'd burn, file...and then the huge folders of discs would sit on the shelf for years untouched.
Now I've got 8T of NAS space where stuff can sit untouched without me having to shuffle DVDs in and out.
I guess that's one step forward in dealing with my hoarding problem?

AndrewDavie wrote:
I guess that's one step forward in dealing with my hoarding problem?

"Problem"?

I don't know what you're talking about...

Hi All,
It's been some time since I have been in a supermarket with my Mum, I forgot how to translate "Ah, can you get those thing in tube you like..." to an actual item... we were standing in the frozen food isle at the time, Can anyone guess the item???? Laugh | :laugh:

Cannelloni?
Burritos?
Spring Rolls?
Beansprouts?
Spaghetti?
Penne?
Beef Wellington?
Ice Pops?
Garden Hoses?
Earthworms?
Cucumbers?

Am I warm? Laugh | :laugh:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

OriginalGriff wrote:
Am I warm?

I suppose that, relative to the rest of the items in the frozen aisle...yes?

The Frozen Isle was where the question was asked...not where the item was.

My mistake. It thought it was implied both were true.

So Did I...

Not even close, it was...Pringles Crisps... Laugh | :laugh:

Geeky Mom would've described it as that thing you make cantennas with.

I hadn't though of that...

I play this game with Herself several times a day: most of the time I can guess from context what word she has "lost" - but when I can't the conversation can get somewhat surreal... Laugh | :laugh:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

My mother does that all the time, switching conversation topics with no indication whatsoever. Putting everything back into context becomes an art form. Siri or Cortana couldn't make sense of her if she tried.

Oh, right; the thing Dad used to smuggle that new tele-photo lens for his camera across the border...

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