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| System Name | [ JUNE_2024 ] |
|---|---|
| Processor | LGA1700 i5-12600K / 3.7Ghz / 10 cores |
| Motherboard | Asus Prime Z790Mplus D4 |
| Cooling | Abysm Snow 4 Duo120mm |
| Memory | Kingston Fury Beast 32Gb DDR4-3600 |
| Video Card(s) | Asus RTX 4070 Dual 12Gb |
| Storage | M2 Corsair MP600 CoreXT 1Tb |
| Display(s) | Asus 32" VG1A |
| Case | Cooler Master Q300L ATX |
| Power Supply | Corsair RM 750w Modular |
Drobo company is gone and my dad's old Drobo is a 2017 NAS of 4-bays, recently showing its age with often drive errors, specially each time he replugs the NAS (we recently swapped to a new pc, where i've reinstalled him the latest drobo UI without problem) so, today i've watched a bunch of YT videos, that mention all the latest NAS brands on the market but none are cheap... a minimum 2-bays fetch for 300$, so a DIY system is tempting... here's a resume of his NAS workflow (picture below):
1) - his Drobo is not connected to the internet, no cloud-synch nor remote-access needed for his home PC.
2) - he has a main 3.5" HDD of 2Tb (bay #1) with another identical HDD (bay #2) for ghost-image of the main (redundancy)
3) - he only uses it to backup office work and images - from excel to photos and even bureaucracy - IRS and banking data (he doesn't trust his data connected online to a 3rd-party cloud)
4) - he opens a file from Drobo main drive, works on that file on his desktop, then saves it back to the NAS original directory - which Drobo saves a second-copy into the ghost drive.
5) - when he switches on his PC, the drobo automatically turns on also and takes a few minutes to make 6Tb available on File Explorer (same thing for shutting down the pc)
NOTE - for some reason he has a 3rd drive HDD of 2Tb slotted in bay #3 (not sure if Drobo uses it at all) so i count a disc space of 3 x 2Tb = 6Tb... but somehow File Explorer shows 15Tb in total
...my Questions are:
- can i transfer all his drobo data into smaller formats SSD 2.5" discs and secure these, inside the pc AXT case, alongside the PC windows SSD ?
- is there a stand-alone & easy-to-use program, for the drives D & E to work in-synch allowing backup & cloning?
- my dad is 85 years old and he's afraid that he forgets to backup files manually (doing 2 copies to each drive, is troublesome) or that he erases an original file, or copies over the good one, or even does a cut instead of a copy action - so he wants a program that does a double-backup automatically and alerts him when disc is full, basically...
all feedback is welcome, thank you!
EDIT: from a video i saw, i think it should be called a DAS (Direct) and not a NAS (Network) since it doesn't use an internet connection.
1) - his Drobo is not connected to the internet, no cloud-synch nor remote-access needed for his home PC.
2) - he has a main 3.5" HDD of 2Tb (bay #1) with another identical HDD (bay #2) for ghost-image of the main (redundancy)
3) - he only uses it to backup office work and images - from excel to photos and even bureaucracy - IRS and banking data (he doesn't trust his data connected online to a 3rd-party cloud)
4) - he opens a file from Drobo main drive, works on that file on his desktop, then saves it back to the NAS original directory - which Drobo saves a second-copy into the ghost drive.
5) - when he switches on his PC, the drobo automatically turns on also and takes a few minutes to make 6Tb available on File Explorer (same thing for shutting down the pc)
NOTE - for some reason he has a 3rd drive HDD of 2Tb slotted in bay #3 (not sure if Drobo uses it at all) so i count a disc space of 3 x 2Tb = 6Tb... but somehow File Explorer shows 15Tb in total
...my Questions are:
- can i transfer all his drobo data into smaller formats SSD 2.5" discs and secure these, inside the pc AXT case, alongside the PC windows SSD ?
- is there a stand-alone & easy-to-use program, for the drives D & E to work in-synch allowing backup & cloning?
- my dad is 85 years old and he's afraid that he forgets to backup files manually (doing 2 copies to each drive, is troublesome) or that he erases an original file, or copies over the good one, or even does a cut instead of a copy action - so he wants a program that does a double-backup automatically and alerts him when disc is full, basically...
all feedback is welcome, thank you!
EDIT: from a video i saw, i think it should be called a DAS (Direct) and not a NAS (Network) since it doesn't use an internet connection.
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