Storage

[1984dc]

Hello all.

I have a hell of a lot of data (over 2tb and counting) and i was looking at storage options for backups etc. At the moment i have all my data spread across an array of hard disks and i am looking to get a large storage device to conglomerate my data and generally ease my complex and dis-organised system.

I am looking in the 8tb-10tb range (if i can save up the money!). I noticed that there where a lot of expensive raid hard drives available from various sources, which i´m presuming would act as a normal desktop hard drive. I have also seen that there seems to be a considerably cheaper option in
network storage units.

I am not sure if you can use these these network storage units to store normal data (documents,music,videos etc...) or it is just for specific network data. I was also curious as to whether these storage devices could be accessed by any computer using any operating system (I am running windows mac and linux, but i´m not familiar with linux server distributions).

Any advice on this would be great.

Many thanks in advance.

Dc

 

[Cromewell]

I am not sure if you can use these these network storage units to store normal data (documents,music,videos etc...) or it is just for specific network data. I was also curious as to whether these storage devices could be accessed by any computer using any operating system (I am running windows mac and linux, but i´m not familiar with linux server distributions).

You can put whatever you want on them, it's basically a fileshare. Access from various OSes shouldn't be too much trouble.

 

[Rocko]

As long as you have a web browser, you can get to your stuff. Google is actually implementing this in their upcoming OS. They call it "Cloud computing"