RE: New Macs....so what hard drive and enclosures??

["Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxxxx>]

So how bad is the DroboShare then Kenneth ?

I've got one sitting in a box waiting to attached my Drobo to - but as its
primarily used for movie streaming this doesn=92t sound good :(

I have occassional stuttering when streaming BluRay via Drobo connected to
=
a
Athlon 2gig PC with 1 gig ram and blame it on the PC -but by the sounds of
it its going to get worse with the Droboshare ?

Will a faster PC with gigabit connection help with the transfer rates
rathe=
r
than the Droboshare ?




Dean.

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-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Kenneth Watt
Sent: 21 October 2009 00:16
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] New Macs....so what hard drive and enclosures??

I just ordered a couple of iMACs for work as we use them, see what they're
like when they finally arrive.

TBH if it's anything remotely valuable in the way of data that your
keeping=
,
unless you're mirroring the drives, get some form of reliable storage as
th=
e
drives will fail and you will lose your data. It isn't a question of if,
only when. And, I speak from bitter experience of failed drives...
repeatedly.

I now run a Thecus N5200, a Drobo attached to a TC and a WHS which is about
to have an eSATA enclosure attached. None of which makes my data totally
100% safe by any stretch but it is a whole heap better than relying on the
resilience of a few aged drives and a prayer.

Stay away from the network adaptor thing for the Drobo, it's useless.=20=20
I can give you one if you like but, for streaming video it's about as much
use as a chocolate firegaurd and, that's being kind to it.

1.5Tb drives are seriously good value ATM, I just got four Samsung ones
thi=
s
morning from Ebuyer but they've not even been out the wrapper yet. I'll get
to it... sometime.

The Mini upgrade, good, but not mind blowing. If you can pick up a last gen
one for a lot less off Ebay or suchlike I'd say it was probably no bad
thing, the 2Ghz one is fine for most uses, you just need to up the RAM
(IMO=
)
to 4Gb to get the most from it.

HTH

K.

On 20 Oct 2009, at 20:35, noel wrote:

> New Macs announced today (Imacs, macbook and mac mini) so my order
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> a mac mini will be in in the next few days.
>
> So I need to invest in some new hard drives to ease the data
transfer=20
> from my aged pc media server currently running 3x 300gb drives and 1
x=20
> 750gb. Looks like 1.5Tb drives have the edge in terms of price
point.=20
> Dabs have a seagate at =A383.90.
>
> Any other suggestions or negatives with this? I've been using some
two=20
> bay usb enclosures which I'd intended to keep using unless there's=20
> anything else out there that people can recommend. At this stage
I'm=20
> staying clear of raid etc, mainly out of cost as to do it on the mac
I=20
> think i'd be heading into Drobo territory.
>
> Any issues with what I'm saying? where's best place for drives and=20
> deals that anyones used recently??
>
> Thanks
>
> Noel
>
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