LuckyLuke57
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Backup of a Plextor PX-xxL NAS
Hello,
I like to buy a Plextor PX-EH40L NAS.
This network drive has 2 usb-ports which can be used to attach another usb-drive.
This attached drive can be used as a backup device for the NAS.
But when I read the online documentation, I see that I can choose between formatting in FAT or formatting in a dedicated Plextor format.
What is the advantage of choosing the dedicated Plextor format, if you know that you can't read the data on that second USB-drive unless attached on the Plextor NAS (or another one I suppose). If my NAS crashes, it would be very comfortable to read al the data on this backupdrive on any PC via the usb-port.
Is it a matter of speed?
Is it a higher level of raid/backup (i.e. if I use a simple FAT formatted drive, will it be a simple copy or Norton Ghost, and if it is Plextor formatted, will it be a real RAID 0)?
Thanks a lot,
Luke
I like to buy a Plextor PX-EH40L NAS.
This network drive has 2 usb-ports which can be used to attach another usb-drive.
This attached drive can be used as a backup device for the NAS.
But when I read the online documentation, I see that I can choose between formatting in FAT or formatting in a dedicated Plextor format.
What is the advantage of choosing the dedicated Plextor format, if you know that you can't read the data on that second USB-drive unless attached on the Plextor NAS (or another one I suppose). If my NAS crashes, it would be very comfortable to read al the data on this backupdrive on any PC via the usb-port.
Is it a matter of speed?
Is it a higher level of raid/backup (i.e. if I use a simple FAT formatted drive, will it be a simple copy or Norton Ghost, and if it is Plextor formatted, will it be a real RAID 0)?
Thanks a lot,
Luke
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Unless I missed something there is no RAID with this device at all.
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Perhaps I was confusiing with the Iomega solutions.
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If you do that you can treat this drive as you would a second (non-OS) drive in any other computer on your network
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That was indeed what I thought.
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I suspect the proprietary format is for data compression to save drive space.
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I don't find more info on that. I don't like compression algorithms on harddisk level.
Luke
Unless I missed something there is no RAID with this device at all.
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Perhaps I was confusiing with the Iomega solutions.
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If you do that you can treat this drive as you would a second (non-OS) drive in any other computer on your network
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That was indeed what I thought.
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I suspect the proprietary format is for data compression to save drive space.
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I don't find more info on that. I don't like compression algorithms on harddisk level.
Luke
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Advantages:
- It looks to be very silent, in stead of every old PC or Dell.
- It will take a less space than the Dell machine, and certainly less footprint than that old PC (which I actually own)....
- It looks to be very silent, in stead of every old PC or Dell.
- It will take a less space than the Dell machine, and certainly less footprint than that old PC (which I actually own)....
Whatever trips your trigger, it was just a suggestion.
I suspect the proprietary format is for data compression to save drive space.
I would not use it because I would want the drive to work in any standard computer should the need to arise.
If you have any Win98 machines on the network I would format in FAT32 and if not I'd use NTFS.
If you do that you can treat this drive as you would a second (non-OS) drive in any other computer on your network
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