Is this a good home server?

[nick198400]

has anyone here had experience with the server at http://www.advatronix.com/products/CU1200/ ? It looks like it would be perfect for me but I wanted a little feedback first. What do you think?

i do most of my work from home it would be great to have something like this with 12 hdds to store my files and backup my computer. It's great that it's secure to help protect you from losing your files and it's also supposed to be really energy efficient which is important to me.

it seems all around pretty awesome. i would like to know if anyone here has used this server before and what you think of it.

thank you!

 

[nsafreak]

Haven't used one of those servers before, but HOLY COW at the prices. They call it a home server yet it's priced more like an enterprise server with the lowest priced one starting at $5,000. Have you thought of perhaps building your own? There are several cases available that can handle 12 hard drives and are still fairly small.

 

[teh_pwnerer]

home servers are useless and make no sense at all. Biggest waste of money ever.

Your going to use it as a backup server? What happens if your power dies? Oh you spent a few hundred dollars on a UPS? Ok...

I'd rather have a few external hard drives which never have a chance of being damaged. I unplug them after I am done.

Home server = useless. But it's your money.

 

[Ken g6]

You might be looking for a Network Attached Storage device, or NAS, like this.

 

[fread2281]

A NAS is basically a cheap server in a HDD enclosure, so you could also build a cheap computer here.

 

[nsafreak]

home servers are useless and make no sense at all. Biggest waste of money ever.

Your going to use it as a backup server? What happens if your power dies? Oh you spent a few hundred dollars on a UPS? Ok...

I'd rather have a few external hard drives which never have a chance of being damaged. I unplug them after I am done.

Home server = useless. But it's your money.

External hard drives never have a chance of being damaged? What hard drives do you buy that are like that since I want to know where fantasy land's store is located, never can seem to find it. Hard drives, external or otherwise, always have a chance of failure due to some random reason or a hardware fault.

That being said a home server is far from useless although some folks can be served just by external hard drives other folks make use of the extended functionality that a home server can give you. Keep in mind that a home server is only one part of a backup solution and anything that you want to make sure is backed up needs to have at least one offsite backup as well either by transferring an external hard drive offsite or by using a service like CrashPlan or Carbonite.

 

[teh_pwnerer]

External hard drives never have a chance of being damaged? What hard drives do you buy that are like that since I want to know where fantasy land's store is located, never can seem to find it. Hard drives, external or otherwise, always have a chance of failure due to some random reason or a hardware fault.

That being said a home server is far from useless although some folks can be served just by external hard drives other folks make use of the extended functionality that a home server can give you. Keep in mind that a home server is only one part of a backup solution and anything that you want to make sure is backed up needs to have at least one offsite backup as well either by transferring an external hard drive offsite or by using a service like CrashPlan or Carbonite.

Dude don't even try to justify... you are wrong.

Hard Drives inside a of a computer have a higher failure rate. When the computer is running constantly that rate increases by 55%. The more hard drives, the higher the rate increases.

Heat, dust, constant writing to the platter, etc all wear down the drive.

An external drive can fail, but has a 92% chance less of failing compared to an internal drive.

 

[nsafreak]

Dude don't even try to justify... you are wrong.

Hard Drives inside a of a computer have a higher failure rate. When the computer is running constantly that rate increases by 55%. The more hard drives, the higher the rate increases.

Heat, dust, constant writing to the platter, etc all wear down the drive.

An external drive can fail, but has a 92% chance less of failing compared to an internal drive.

Source and statistics to back this claim up? Because you are quite wrong sir.

 

[mfenn]

Dude don't even try to justify... you are wrong.

Hard Drives inside a of a computer have a higher failure rate. When the computer is running constantly that rate increases by 55%. The more hard drives, the higher the rate increases.

Heat, dust, constant writing to the platter, etc all wear down the drive.

An external drive can fail, but has a 92% chance less of failing compared to an internal drive.

I call BS. You've got to produce some sort of data to back up outrageous claims like that.

 

[mfenn]

Anyway, OP while I have no double that the Cirrus server is good, you are paying $5000 for a $700 machine + $1200 worth of HDDs.

Can you give us some more information about what it is that you want to do.
- How much storage do you need?
- Do you intend for this server to solely store files or to perform some other tasks?