Hello,
I am looking into the possibility of a raid 5 backup system for business and personal use. I am not very familiar with this area. I am wanting to backup two computers connected to our Ethernet network. Can I just plug the raid system into the switch?
Thanks in advance.
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Hello,
I am looking into the possibility of a raid 5 backup system for business and personal use. I am not very familiar with this area. I am wanting to backup two computers connected to our Ethernet network. Can I just plug the raid system into the switch?
Thanks in advance.
Well, how much you got to spend and what kind of files will you be moving around? MOST of the network or NAS drives, support AFP, which makes life easy for us Mac heads. SMB works OK, but follows a strict naming profile, similar to Windoze. RAID 5 stinks for WRITE performance, but great for read performance with large databases. If you are moving large media files around, RAID 10 is a good balance of backup/performance (RAID 0 + 1). This is 2 drives STRIPED together for performance (0) with an identical pair to match, then the two sets are set to MIRROR each other for backup.
Is your switch Gigabit? How much space do you need? Mac or PC? Got an older Mac to spare?
Do i have the right idea in that I can connect it to the switch to service 2 computers?
Check out http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...4&N=2010240124 Anything from stuff ready to go to empty add your own drives.