Or just get a Windows Home Server; based off of Windows Server and does nightly backups. Or you can build your own rig and get the WHS OS. I believe its based off of RAID with hot swappable HDDs. Got 3 TB at the crib and backing up everything (Mac, Desktop and wives Laptop)
My only concern is heat issues and power consumption. If you build your own, you can always fix those, but then cost goes up. From a cost to performance ratio, a $70 icydock with ācost of up to 4 hddā is a pretty slick deal.
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Nigga who got 400 dollars to just drop on a fucking server? anyway, when I get my finances right Iāll look into getting one of those docks and a hard drive.
For sits and giggles, Drake should do some cross promotion work for Canada Dryā¦imjusayinā¦
And dammit I bought that Anthony Hamilton lsat week but keep forgetting to upload it so I can listen heh. January/February seems to be a musical āblack outā thoughā¦
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Its actually pretty cheapā¦considering your getting 1 TB HDD space, WHS OS and room for expansionā¦the OS and HDD is ~~$250 itself. (not to mention you getting an actual computer) Backing up your music every night as a DJ to 3 different locations in case one of them failsā¦business has to keep going no matter the cost.
Just bought a 8k server for workā¦36 TB of Spaceā¦why?
Cause iām the BAWSSSSE
For what? MOAR AOL BETAS!
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You are a college graduate, Iām a broke 23 year old whoās mom died and was left with nothing because my mothers people had life insurance on her and didnāt share any of it with me until I get on my feet. I can understand your reasoning for having what you have, but the average consumer has no reason to drop that kind of money on hardware, I got bills to pay, thatās what Iād use that for. Iāll be glad the day comes where Iām not struggling to survive, I thank God for what I do have, it could always be worse.
Hyper-V server (exchange 2010 and file share right nowā¦)
$400 for a backup server for customers is actually very cheap considering the alternatives and also depending on what you have/want to keep backed up. For myself, it backs up my music, photos, videos, my wife backs up her laptop (image) so if she need to get a file, she can restore it from a point in time. Now, I do get that the āaverageā person wouldnāt need this, but we run 2 business out of the house and have a ton of family photos that would be horrible if lost. Also, breaking down the cost of say, cloud backups (can you really trust them?) and paying a small fee every month vs. the space/no fee you can get the the home server.
As Unreal put it, externals are known to give out at any given moment, (two died on me in the past) so I couldnāt take the chance of it happening again.
yeah thatās why I said in your situation it makes sense, I plan on doing what he said, the inclosure with a desktop hd, that server thing will be something Iāll look into doing when I start practicing as a registered dietitian. Back up client files at home, all my meal plans and articles, etc.
Yeah I talked with Ace on it in the past Iām still torn. I donāt want to invest in a server, but its not a āhell noā in the scheme of things. I have cloud storage (well photobucket 
) where I keep a back-up of all my sonās pics, but my music? Not even getting to my recorded music - but looking at my music collection - Iām currently floating somwhere between 550-600 gigs at this point, and it continues to increase. ALOT of my music collection are from rips of my CDs, some of which are no longer rip able, some of which you canāt find on iTunes or the net, some of which are from hand to hand deals with underground act (SUPPORT THE SCENE). Iād be in such a world of hurt if my collection crashed. Right now its in 2.5 locations but a house fire would kill it. My current plans involve finishing the big organize (where I tag everything the EXACT way I want where āalbum titleā = Year - Album; all albums have their cover art; all artist have their picture,/etc setup for my touch screen jukeboxā¦but take that and put a clone of it in our fire proof safe along with our birth certificates and the such. But then I want it stored on the network in a manner that my iphone/pad/touch can all see them (currently using the audiogalaxy app), all the laptops and computers can see them, and I have enough redundancy that I donāt have to worry about losing a harddrive or two. It means that much - so something like a server isnāt that far off for protecting my data. But right now the IcyDocks are my top pickā¦thoug hafter the news yesterday I might have to go bak to justburning stuff to CD since Iām going back into the poor house (wifeās car is giving us issues).
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What are you sharing hmm? Hmm? Are those AOL Betas? Is that AOL 9.0?
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Music wise; we are about the same, my storage is on my regular PC; then the file server; then my MAC HDD; then a back up of that; then a backup from one of my DJ brothas. Pictures, I pay for additional storage with Google; PC backup, Server backup. Also, with the server, I can remote into my PC at any given moment if I need to download something or check on something, also have access to any of the files on the system as well.
LOLā¦shut up. No, actually out of the 36TB we only have roughly about 10-15TB after RAID
Yea, its something for when you have files upon files from years and years, but for the lone student (yourself) DVD/CD worked for me back in the day. Though, a LOT of those CDs/DVDs are corrupted for some reason (lost a few albums to it)
CD-Rs have a shelf life. The quality of the CD/DVD plays a factor in how well it holds up overtime. They typically last anywhere from 3-5 years, outside of that range they become iffy. At this point htough Iām an advocate of NOT doing CD/DVDs. It worked for us because of the high cost of harddrives at the timeā¦but reallyā¦
50 CD-Rs for $20 = 50*700 MBs = 35000MBs/1024 = 34.17 GBs for $20 = $0.58 per gigā¦versus
Top 3 externals (reviewed on Newegg over 400 gigs, but less than 900 gigs)
500 gigs @ $119.99 = $0.24 per gig
Average internal (Newegg)
500 gigs @ $99.99 = $0.19 per gig
And of course digging you can find better pricing for all three, but its a ātypicalā lookā¦and market cponditions have driven up the price of internal hardrives (1 TB used to go for $100-130)ā¦plus nothing sucks more than trying to search thru CDs. Your IMO better off doubling up harddrive space for a RAID setup or a simple clone than spending the money on CDs that youāll have to burn, and canāt āupdateā.
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My collection is in a major ātransitionā so I have my base setup - currently installed inside of Zeratul, then I have the base + work laptop (around 90 gigs of mixtapes/amazon purchases) + new rips + absorbed collections - being organized on an internal that I use in an aftermarket enclosure. Then my personal laptop has about 1/2 of my collection on it, and my work laptop has another 1/3 of it (from me copying over and organziing stuff at work for ipod use. Iād liek to access my stuff remotely on my iPhone, but Iāll owrry abou that AFTER my collection is organized perfectly (incentive).
I used to HATE RAID simply because of how expensive data was, but its so cheap these days, there is no reason not to.
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This House track is amazingā¦
I still hate RAID; now that they have āaddedā new RAID (RAID 1+0 or RAID 10; RAID 5+0 or RAID 50, etc) Trying to setup a virtual environment with RAID and taking into consideration for all the other applications that want a different RAID is mindboggling to say the least.
Habits and Contradictions is my shit right now
Schoolboy Q came through. Setbacks is still nice, but Iām really lovinā this production. who knew Lex Luger could make a beat that sounds different from all his other ones.
oooowee this albumās nice
Whatās your op on the education bubble
Big GhostFase blog is getting a lot more attention these days from people who are considered higher up. He just did an interview right here.
I think the amount of money we have to pay to go to school is ridiculous, but we sadly have no choice.
serious question, is virginia considered apart of the southern US?