nas server setup

[SYNACK]

Some models from Old Maxtor, Samsung & Western Digital all have NCQ.

 

I have a 3 year old 200GB Maxtor at home with NCQ.

 

A fair few drive manufacturers may have picked up NCQ but from my experience they never pushed it as hard as Seagate did, if they had have it would be a lot better supported out of the box on all motherboards and cards.

 

 

I also agree with the majority here that for a school the best option currently would be local drives mirrored overnight for backup.

Edited April 7, 2008 by SYNACK

[PEO]

If you are syncing to a share from windows you may well need to stagger the connections to avoid the dreaded "delayed write failed" message if your storage box can't respond in quickly enough.

 

 

yep create a script to WOL the machines

 

then would you set a scheduled job to backup on the machines or the server.

 

Im thinking server, so its easier to manage from a central location.

 

does anyone agree or have a diffrent approach?