Home made NAS

[Moish]

On 04/12/2012 21:27, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
> 2012/12/4 Baruch Shpirer <baruch at shpirer.com>:
>> Too many ways to do this but if you consider the data you are going to put
>> on this nas valueable and the hw you are talking about is 2+yrs old then you
>> better off buying new
>>
>> With old hw you can never be sure its going to come up next time and basicly
>> nothing is promised, but for sure stuff can still work for ever with some
>> miracle and a luck dragon..
> According to research done by google and also in my experience a
> normal harddisk (spinner) that has functioned without failures for 3
> years will generally last for a very long time....
>>

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Better read this article first (from 2007)
http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-experience/

Moish