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Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Electronic data, in all of its forms?<\/p>\n

A good thing? A bad thing? A bit of both?<\/p>\n

I ‘own’ 1.75Tb of electronic data.<\/p>\n

Audio files (music tracks\/albums and various recorded interviews) comprise about 35% of that.<\/p>\n

30% are videos, and either completed, or partially completed video projects.<\/p>\n

The remaining 35% are a combination of documents and spreadsheets, backups of content of various websites and databases, plus a code repository for various software application I’ve written.<\/p>\n

For ease of access I’ve mapped a network drive across the LAN to the NAS IP address.<\/p>\n

I use the NAS, locally, every \u00a0day.<\/p>\n

My entire music library (including iTunes podcasts) are all saved in a subdirectory in z:\\<\/p>\n

So are all of my writing projects; past, present, and future.<\/p>\n

So my NAS is a pretty important place.<\/p>\n

Which is why I’m currently backing it up, to a 3Tb EDD.<\/p>\n

I got a text from my NAS this morning.<\/p>\n

It told me:<\/p>\n

Wassup Dude! One or more volumes\/Disk Groups\/iSCSI LUNs\/SSD caches are degraded. We suggest you replace the failing hard disks with healthy ones for repair. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thanked the deity of RAID, which creates a volume and spreads that volume across multiple hard disks so that if one disk fails, the other disks in that volume carry on working, with no data loss.<\/p>\n

I bought the Synology\u00a0Disk Station DS-211 NAS server (and therefore the storage disks inside it) in August 2011.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t sound that long ago.<\/p>\n

But it’s been on 24\/7 ever since then, and has also been through four house moves over those seven years.<\/p>\n

And it’s saved my backside more than once, through being my total backup repository.<\/p>\n

Not to mention being my entire digital library.<\/p>\n

But with one disk failed, it is time to consider a new NAS.<\/p>\n

So I’m about to place an order for a Synology DS418, and four 3Tb drives.<\/p>\n

For the RAIDing.<\/p>\n

And once I have installed it, it will be time to say goodbye to this little chap:<\/p>\n

\"Synology
Synology DS211<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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