What's the best HDD monitor that can email you?

[paperfist]

I'm looking to setup a backup box and want to monitor the 2 drives that will be in it for reliability. If there's an issue I want it to email me.

I don't mind if it's paid.

Thanks for the help

 

[VirtualLarry]

HDD Sentinel?

 

[ch33zw1z]

What's your backup solution look like? Windows? Linux? Or a nas?

https://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/tutorial/article/setup-sms-and-email-alert-notifications/

https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/help/DSM/AdminCenter/system_notification_email

Other popular NAS OS's would do this as well.

 

[paperfist]

What's your backup solution look like? Windows? Linux? Or a nas?

https://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/tutorial/article/setup-sms-and-email-alert-notifications/

https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/help/DSM/AdminCenter/system_notification_email

Other popular NAS OS's would do this as well.

Sweet thanks I didn't know they could do that. I haven't made a decision yet per my last thread, but I'm leaning toward a NAS box. A custom box with Acronis is my 2nd choice, but I'm still doing research. I'm not sure if I have to put them in RAID, but I was thinking of using 2-3 drives that just backed up to one another so I don't have to deal with possible controller failures.

 

[ch33zw1z]

In the case you dont choose raid, no sweat, just put one drive in the NAS, and use the other as the NAS backup via USB, kinda like a raid one, but keeps a volume offline while not in use.

FWIW, most NAS enclosures I've looked at use some form of software raid, so concern over failing raid controllers isn't all that necessary

 

[paperfist]

In the case you dont choose raid, no sweat, just put one drive in the NAS, and use the other as the NAS backup via USB, kinda like a raid one, but keeps a volume offline while not in use.

FWIW, most NAS enclosures I've looked at use some form of software raid, so concern over failing raid controllers isn't all that necessary

Thanks for the info.

Hmm and here I thought most NAS boxes were so much because they did RAID with hardware and not software.

 

[slashy16]

Thanks for the info.

Hmm and here I thought most NAS boxes were so much because they did RAID with hardware and not software.

Depending on how much data you backup per day you may be better off using Amazon Glacier and a cheap product to upload files directly to the cloud.
I use fastglacier on a script to send my photo directories and other important data directly to the cloud. It is safer there than anything at home
backup solution. Another cheap solution is to use one drive if you have a Microsoft office sub.