Partitioned the same and that is used to backup both partitions on One benefit of Firewire over USB is that with Firewire I canīoot from the external drive if needed. ThatĪllows me to nightly mirror my drive in the computer to the externalĭrive. Mirror the drive in the computer and one to hold the music.
I've actually partitioned each drive into two partitions, one used to Primary and one as a backup which stays disconnected and powered off
Why a nas vs external hard drive mac#
I also have a Mac and two 400Gb Firewire/USB drives. After which you still don't have a stand alone It's cheaper to buy twoĮxternal drives and using one as a backup than purchasing a NAS and I would stay away from the NAS like others have suggested for cost, I keep a USB at the office, and periodically bring it home to sync/backup. I use a NAS for my main music library because it runs slimserver and it's also an integral part of the backup system for the other computers in the house.
Why a nas vs external hard drive update#
If possible, keep the backup drive off-site, and bring it home as needed to update the backup. It protects well against down time from drive failure, but not against other dangers like human error (accidentally deleting files), theft, fire, flood, stray projectiles, etc. Personally, I think RAID is overrated for applications like storing your music library. Why two external USB drives? Because eventually every hard drive will fail, and so you'll need one as a backup. The USB drives are simpler, so they're generally less expensive - sometimes much less expensive - than NASs. SteveIf all you're looking for is external storage and plan to run slimserver off your Mac, and not interested in sharing files off computers, then I'd recommend two external USB drives. However, I am interested in redundancy (RAID), as I don't want to do this again if a hard drive fails.
I'm really not interested in the ability to share my music files across any other computers. a basic USB external drive? I haven't started to rip my collection yet (just bought the SB3 a few days ago) and I want to set this up right. Just my opinion of course - I'm sure there are NAS fans who will suggest benefits that I am unable to see for myself.Ĭan anyone walk me through the benefits/drawbacks of NAS vs.
You can do this with rsync or if you prefer a GUI there are a number of programs which can do this including automation of copying.
My advice would be to buy 2 external drives of the same size (500 to 600 Gb disks are widely available and reasonably priced) and hook them both up to your Mac, copy the music files to both of them and then run a backup routine to regularly copy what is added to the main drive to the backup copy. As I understand it, the NAS is a (crippled) form of a computer so what's the big deal anyway.Īs far as securing backups I do not believe NAS offers any advantage unless you set it up as a RAID array, which seems a little complicated to me. It seems to me that these are typically compromised in their flexibility, power, ability to run the latest version of SlimServer, add plugins, etc, and offer in compensation very little other than what appears to be some sort of holy grail for a few people of "not having a computer on 24/7". The reason for saying this is the significant number of threads in this forum over the past few months from people wrestling with setting up/upgrading/troubleshooting their various NAS set-ups. My opinion - albeit based on experience with only one of the options, but considerable anecdotal reading of the other - is to forget the NAS idea and go with simple external hard disks (USB or Firewire).
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