not phpLd related but had to share

hehehe...i know i know...but i'm drooling lmfao

my hopefully soon to be new toy (depends on how big my bonus check is )

6TB Storage Unit

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...20Duo%206%20TB

That's a lot of space. I assume you have lots of files you want to save?

Very nice, can't live without my NAS now that I've had it for awhile...

Be aware that if you use Raid for hardware redundancy (if 1 disk dies, you loose no data, just plug in another drive and let it rebuild the volume) your effective storage capacity will really be 3TB. BTW, I always choose Raid and sacrifice the capacity. One of my drives went belly up recently and I replaced it with no problems.

I use a Synology NAS with a couple of 3TB drives: http://www.synology.com/products/pro...DS212j&lang=us

Not only am I using it as a storage server for all of my Macs and PCs, but it also serves movies to my home theater setup, provides an iTunes library of music to all my computers, and I have a home surveillance camera set up with it. I'm in the process now of setting it up as my home network web server for development and testing, etc. Oh, and I also backup everything from my NAS to an external 3TB drive monthly and keep that offsite at my office in case my NAS blows up or other catastrophe. Think I'm paranoid about losing my data?

Joe

I have seen bigger storage arrays that, but that one is actually quite a good price for the size.

However, you can build you own array using standard drives and it would be a lot cheaper seeing as you can now get a 1,5Tb drived for less than $100.. I've currently got just under 4Tb connected to my laptop when at home (with oinly about 40Gb spare. I just have my drives stacked on top of each other in the open with a desxtop fan cooling them,. but you can do it properly using a standard PC box with the built in fans.

Bruce.

hm...thanks Bruce, I may look into that...we've got plenty of old outdated pc's laying around as potential projects lol...hadn't thought that yeah I guess I could just shove some HDs in to one of the towers and plug it into our home network

But yes I was searching on line and that link there is the cheapest one and a great deal as most want at least $100/1TB and you are limited to 3 connecting devices...whereas this is $400 for 6TB and unlimited connections

Yep David...I have 2 kids just on my laptop alone even with the files/folders compressed my pics/vids are 100gb and well my bf has 3 pcs full of music and games games games lol...

thanks for the info findmyhobby

kicks myself...I so need to brush up on my networking classes (though that was 15yrs ago, we were happy with 56K dial-up lmfao....technology's come a long way since then lmfao we thought LAN and cat 5 fiber optic cable was great....who would've imagined 4g wifi)

grrr...so yeah i was screwed out of my bonus so this is now on the back burner