Best Backup Solution

[cube]

Deskstar desktop is EOL. Deskstar NAS seems to be staying and is only a little bit more. I think it might be possible to disable TLER. Go for the 6TB.

I started buying the desktop 4TB in 2012. The NAS did not exist. Now I have 8 and they are becoming quite rare.

Of course not the 8 in one array, they are desktop drives.

 

[swamyg1]

Deskstar desktop is EOL. Deskstar NAS seems to be staying and is only a little bit more. I think it might be possible to disable TLER. Go for the 6TB.

I started buying the desktop 4TB in 2012. The NAS did not exist. Now I have 8 and they are becoming quite rare.

Of course not the 8 in one array, they are desktop drives.

I see, so these NAS drives are best to run in raid on a Thunderbay 4? They will deliver on performance and life?

 

[matreya]

I see, so these NAS drives are best to run in raid on a Thunderbay 4? They will deliver on performance and life?

That's how I have my Deskstar NAS drives operating, in a couple of Thunderbay IV enclosures using SoftRAID in RAID5 mode.

 

[andrew5494]

That's how I have my Deskstar NAS drives operating, in a couple of Thunderbay IV enclosures using SoftRAID in RAID5 mode.

Sorry Im not good with this but if you have a NAS Hard drive its meant to run in a NAS enclosure right?
So you can't use the OWC 2 Bay enclosure with that correct?

 

[IHelpId10t5]

I can't stress this enough - the "Best" backup solution is one that includes off-site storage. Your "backup" is useless if both your backup and the device that is backed up are in the building when it burns down or floods. I know, that's a bit extreme, but this IS a "disaster recovery plan", right?

I was looking to see how many posts it took before someone pointed out that an off-site back is a necessity, not an option. For home Macs, I think that any real effort for a backup plan entails:

1) TimeMachine backups (doesn't really matter to what, DAS, NAS, or TC)
2) Off-site backup to either Cloud service (Backblaze, CrashPlan), or alternative off-site storage
3) Occasional full-disk bootable clones of all storage

If you have a NAS os DAS involved in your home storage, then it too needs to be included in backups. RAID is of course not a backup in any way even if it does make that failure of a single physical drive failure less troublesome.

 

[matreya]

Sorry Im not good with this but if you have a NAS Hard drive its meant to run in a NAS enclosure right?
So you can't use the OWC 2 Bay enclosure with that correct?

They're NAS drives because they're designed for more intensive use than a desktop drive. It doesn't mean they can't be used as Desktop drives. I've got 12 of the Deskstar NAS drives running in RAID5 units ( 2 x Thunderbay IV and 1 x G-Tech Studio R RAID enclosure). I'm not running any NAS servers at all. It's all direct desktop storage, just in RAID arrays.
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I was looking to see how many posts it took before someone pointed out that an off-site back is a necessity, not an option.

That's all fine and good when you have 40 Mbps or more upload speed, but cloud backup is a major PITA when you live with under 400 kbps upload speed.

 

[cube]

OK, you have them running in desktop enclosures, but RAID5 is not desktop use.

For true desktop use, the disk should not give up quickly if it encounters an error. That is why the OP has to check about the drive's TLER configuration.