Hello,
Landscape architecture office with four workstations has until now managed with one of the stations doubling as a file server. The file server workstation has a 4x 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RAID 5 configuration built by a computer savvy person back in 2007. One of the HDs failed a year ago and I managed to install a new one in a three day scary process where I first had to read myself to RAID and then to the motherboards RAID configurations , an ASUSM2N32-SLI Deluxe , phew..
As the system is coming of age I would like to, as a preventive measure, renew hardware and separate the file server function from the workstation. With limited computer literacy I shy for too many new codes command lines or programs for the task.
After that background to the questions:
One) Would a QNAP TS-412 NAS with four 1 TB HDs serve my purpose? Would it be worse/better than my recent workstation RAID with 4GB memory and Athlon64 X2 dualcore processor. The programs used are Bentley Micro Station V8i, Adobe CS 5.5, and Autocad Lite. Project files are saved on the file server only. The amount of project files is around half a terabyte so a total usable capacity of 2 TB would be plenty.
Two) With four one TB HDs would I be better advised to configure RAID 0+1 or Raid 5+ hot spare?
I have searched these forums but my understanding is still too fragmentary for decisions so I would welcome any educated suggestions and alternatives.
RolfV
Landscape architecture office with four workstations has until now managed with one of the stations doubling as a file server. The file server workstation has a 4x 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RAID 5 configuration built by a computer savvy person back in 2007. One of the HDs failed a year ago and I managed to install a new one in a three day scary process where I first had to read myself to RAID and then to the motherboards RAID configurations , an ASUSM2N32-SLI Deluxe , phew..
As the system is coming of age I would like to, as a preventive measure, renew hardware and separate the file server function from the workstation. With limited computer literacy I shy for too many new codes command lines or programs for the task.
After that background to the questions:
One) Would a QNAP TS-412 NAS with four 1 TB HDs serve my purpose? Would it be worse/better than my recent workstation RAID with 4GB memory and Athlon64 X2 dualcore processor. The programs used are Bentley Micro Station V8i, Adobe CS 5.5, and Autocad Lite. Project files are saved on the file server only. The amount of project files is around half a terabyte so a total usable capacity of 2 TB would be plenty.
Two) With four one TB HDs would I be better advised to configure RAID 0+1 or Raid 5+ hot spare?
I have searched these forums but my understanding is still too fragmentary for decisions so I would welcome any educated suggestions and alternatives.
RolfV