[knurdle]

Great article, I've had a similar setup for years now.

An 8 year old readynas that's still running, it's really slow but it works. I do a sync with that and a local desktop with a big external drive. And then I back up that local desktop to crashplan.

I have a comment about the drives, I generally like purchasing different manufacturer drives for my NAS when I'm buying them in bulk. I always worry about multiple drives from the same batch failing around the same time. It's happened to me before so now I'll buy similar capacity drives but from different models or mfrs.

[devNoise]

I had a ReadyNAS NV before they were bought by Netgear and though it was good. Unfortunately, I had more drives fail in the ReadyNAS than the computers I was making backups from. As time went on it became hard to find drives that were on the compatibility list.