arnprasad
Well-Known Member
Hi,
I am no techie but got a desktop assembled at SP Road couple of years back and have plugged it to my home theater set up. Extremely happy with it since a big chunk of my media is on my desktop apart from tata sky HD+.
I also have an external hard drive...and I use that drive to back up both my desktop and my office laptop. However I do not do this frequently with the risk of losing recent data.
I recently came across this WD EX hard drive which for around 430 dollars has 8 TB of data and it does two things I currently dont do. In Raid configuration, it gives two 4 TB auto backed up drives plus it also works as NAS which I understand practically means I can access files on that drive from internet.
Amazon.com: WD My Cloud EX2 8 TB: Pre-configured Network Attached Storage featuring WD Red Drives: Computers & Accessories
Amazon.com: WD My Book Duo 8TB dual-drive, high-speed premium RAID storage: Computers & Accessories
http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Mirror-...e=UTF8&qid=1431581006&sr=1-2&keywords=WD+8+TB
While I am happy to spend either 350 dollars on my cloud back up or 450 on EX - both 8 TB, I am wondering whether I can add another 2 TB internal hard drive to my desk top and install some software that will automatically back up my existing hard drive?....similar to what the above WD does? also will any other software enable my desktop to become NAS server - only intention being that i can access my data from internet?
Please advice...
also what other smart things can I do with my desktop..apart from just playing files onto my home theater? never got my head around streaming
I am no techie but got a desktop assembled at SP Road couple of years back and have plugged it to my home theater set up. Extremely happy with it since a big chunk of my media is on my desktop apart from tata sky HD+.
I also have an external hard drive...and I use that drive to back up both my desktop and my office laptop. However I do not do this frequently with the risk of losing recent data.
I recently came across this WD EX hard drive which for around 430 dollars has 8 TB of data and it does two things I currently dont do. In Raid configuration, it gives two 4 TB auto backed up drives plus it also works as NAS which I understand practically means I can access files on that drive from internet.
Amazon.com: WD My Cloud EX2 8 TB: Pre-configured Network Attached Storage featuring WD Red Drives: Computers & Accessories
Amazon.com: WD My Book Duo 8TB dual-drive, high-speed premium RAID storage: Computers & Accessories
http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Mirror-...e=UTF8&qid=1431581006&sr=1-2&keywords=WD+8+TB
While I am happy to spend either 350 dollars on my cloud back up or 450 on EX - both 8 TB, I am wondering whether I can add another 2 TB internal hard drive to my desk top and install some software that will automatically back up my existing hard drive?....similar to what the above WD does? also will any other software enable my desktop to become NAS server - only intention being that i can access my data from internet?
Please advice...
also what other smart things can I do with my desktop..apart from just playing files onto my home theater? never got my head around streaming
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