Purchasing the NAS DS-411+
The Configuration
I reviewed my file server and saw I was using between 2-3GB of hard drive space for the files I will be using in my new Smartphone post PC networked world. Therefore I ordered 4 2TB WD drives as they will provide about 6TB of space after RAID redundancy has been setup on the drives in the NAS unit. That leaves me with two times the space to grow over 5 years. I had read that some PC OSs can only work with 2TB hard drives and I didn’t want any compatability issues before I powered off and took the PCs to my local recycling facility.
I would like to be clear that I don’t expect to trash all of the PCs. I will likely keep some to hand out to people when their systems crash as a way to get them running immediately and others have Apps I doubt I will be available anytime soon on Smartphone tech. Example: my family makes music videos using my daughters Mac and an old PC which has a copy of Pinnacle on it. I won’t trash those machines as the Apps are to large and used way to infrequently to justify replication on Smartphone technology. But they will be powered off and they run all day everyday today.
A listing of the PCs I am looking to trash and functions to move:
All 4 of the families personal PCs – especially and including my own.
1 PC that runs the surveillance cameras for the house – will migrate those to the new NAS unit which natively supports IP based cameras.
1 PC (the mondo file server which doubles as a print server). The NAS unit replicates this function to include the ability to be a print server as well.
1 PC whose sole function is to backup and recover PCs for bare metal restores. PCs will be gone so its’ function will be eliminated.
Drum roll please
7 PCs (really 6 PCs and 1 MAC) eliminated!
I will only keep two not on the list yet. One a laptop for work and one a desktop I built for work as the laptop hangs and chokes on the workload. If my company expands its Smartphone policy to one including the Android - I will move to totally eliminate those as well which could shut off a total of 9 machines. My company is piloting Smartphone policies for Androids as well as others therefore potentially not totally wildly optimistic pipe dream!
The next article will be the logic for which Android I will select and some useful Apps to put on it to move off my personal PC ASAP.
Peace, Leo
