Over the weekend I set up this FreeNAS to go along with the 2T version of this Iomega StorCenter.
You can access the Iomega from the web and FreeNAS can do some cool stuff.
Over the weekend I set up this FreeNAS to go along with the 2T version of this Iomega StorCenter.
You can access the Iomega from the web and FreeNAS can do some cool stuff.
^ This!
I set up a FreeNAS on a refurbished 1U Server, 4 1 Tb WD RE Hard Drives in a RAID that give's me just almost 2 Tb of storage.
The most expensive thing was the hard drives, and you don't have to use enterprise level hardware, so it can all be done way cheaper than I did. I just wanted reliable RAID hence the RE drives, you can use a single drive if you don't care about redundancy. FreeNAS is free, stick it on a thumb drive, stick it in any old PC with a USB port, NIC, & hard drive, after initial set-up, FreeNAS appears as a drive, just like any other Windoze machine on your network.
For off-site, I had been pleased with Mozy, until I reached my cap for their free service. I then whittled down what I wanted auto backed up to the essentials, photos, documents, a select few other files, zipped them and added them to a folder that Mozy saved once a week.
I also manually keep back-ups of important documents on both Drop Box and Google Drive.
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