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building back up server

ViviTheMage

ViviTheMage

Lifer
I built a sweet little bitfenix prodigy NAS running itx, raid card, and 7 enterprise drives in raid5. This is my scratch raid, where I store all of my data. I have the VERY important stuff backing up via an online service, but I am looking to back up locally as well.

But I now have 6 Samsung HD204UI 2TB sitting around ... I am thinking I might sell them, but if I can't i'd love to reuse them as local backups to that RAID....I dislike having to plug in my WD USB drives individually and creating special scripts every time to back up stuff. Some folders contain 3+ TB of data, and some contain a couple gb, so it is difficult to back up with individual drives.

My requirement is it must fit in a small fire safe. Is there anything that would be able to raid these up, and let me copy data to them?

I do not mind taking them out of the safe individually, but I just don't know what would work best ... I'd have to use something super tiny that would let me plop in a fire safe, but I am thinking that might not happen.

help me brainstorm!
 
Physically moving them about, and connecting and disconnecting them, will not help the drives' health one bit.

Also, I would not expect them to survive a fire. Fire safes are generally able to keep paper from reaching a burning point, but that still allows for 300+ deg F.

That said, how small of a small fire safe?
 
its like 15inch by 15inch.

I never thought if a hard drive would survive in the fire safe or not ... they advertise CD/DVD, usb drives would survive.
 
Does it say anything about UL 125 or 150? Those appear to be the certs that require <=125F or <=150F in a 2000F fire for some amount of time. If so, it should be able to do the job.

15 on all sides aught to be able to fit an entire NAS box...
 
I've also got some papers/documents in there I want to keep safe...titles,passports, certificates, degrees, etc.

Fire-resistant up to 1550 degrees to protect your valuables
UL classified 1/2-hour fire protection; ETL verified 1/2-hour protection for CDs, DVDs, USB drives and memory sticks
 
If you want to build, a Fractal Design Node 304 might fit, and be cheaper than a prebuilt NAS box (at 14.72" deep, verify those 15" first!). No hot-swapping, like a prebuilt NAS, but that's not a big deal. 6x2GB could give you 12TB JBOD, 10TB RAID 5 (probably the best choice), or 8TB RAID 6.

For a higher cost, I think some of the 5 and 6 bay NASes will fit, but it's a PITA to find dimensions on them.
 
I wouldn't mind a 4-5 bay JBOD or something that'd fit nicely ... another option is I have an atom board, raid card, memory and this awesome chassis laying around ... I could use this, and just shut down the server, pull the drives and put it in the fire safe once a month.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/846/SC846E2-R900.cfm

It's already taking space on my floor, and gives me the option to add it to our data center downtown if I feel like sucking up some power for personal backups.
 
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