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So I bought an extra 3TB USB drive to extend my 2TB NAS. Only the NAS is currently RAID1 mirrored. So since the USB drive is a new volume, I can't just say, hey, extend onto here. I'm thinking maybe I should go to RAID5?
But then I'd need to store the current backup somewhere while I reconfigured. Which I will probably have to do anyway. In which case I'm thinking about moving off Memeo to some other, more robust, backup software. But then I'd have to figure out how to migrate the old backups.
Hm.
So my next question: Where has the best price on the Paperwhite? Is it Amazon? (Full disclosure: I'm a Prime member, so I don't pay shipping.)
So I bought an extra 3TB USB drive to extend my 2TB NAS. Only the NAS is currently RAID1 mirrored. So since the USB drive is a new volume, I can't just say, hey, extend onto here. I'm thinking maybe I should go to RAID5?
You'll lose 1TB, but I can't think of another option if you want redundancy.
Jilli,
you might want to look at prices on Amazon and Target and Best Buy for comparison. I bet Amazon has the best price though.
If you're looking to save a little money, you can always get the version that has the ads. If you absolutely hate them, you can pay $20 at any time and Amazon will remove the ads (pretty much instantly).
Your other decision is between 3G (more expensive) or Wi-fi. I had 3G on my last Kindle and rarely used it. So I went with Wi-fi this time and don't regret it.
I adore my Paperwhite!
You'll lose 1TB, but I can't think of another option if you want redundancy.
That's what I thought. I dunno. I'm eating up space pretty quick here on my main drive. Maybe redundancy is less important? Maybe I should do a regular optical drive backup, store the dvds offsite and call that my redundant backup?
That'll be a ****load of dvds. OTOH, offsite storage is a good thing.
Yeah. I'm feeling ambivalent about it.
I think I'll try for the RAID5. It's pretty goofy that I'm all, oh, well, I can lose a terabyte. But I'm doubling my space, so maybe I should just do it and be happy with that.
Now the next question is how. Probably best to move it all off, reformat & set up the new software, and then move it back on. But if I was going through all that, then I might as well scrub the current backups for duplicates. The reason it filled to begin with was that I just kept backing up additional laptops, even though I'd pull the archival files for use in the next one, so those are on the NAS multiple times.
But that's a bigger project than I was hoping to do. But it's probably best to just do it, at this point, and start clean.
If you're looking to save a little money, you can always get the version that has the ads. If you absolutely hate them, you can pay $20 at any time and Amazon will remove the ads (pretty much instantly).
The ads aren't all that bad. They're at the bottom of the main screen and they're your screensaver, but since they don't bother you when you're actually reading, I never felt the urge to pay to get rid of them.
Your other decision is between 3G (more expensive) or Wi-fi. I had 3G on my last Kindle and rarely used it. So I went with Wi-fi this time and don't regret it.
My first Touch only had Wi-fi, and my sister bought me one with 3G to replace it when it was stolen (it was actually cheaper since Target was getting rid of them before the Paperwhite was announced), and I've really only used it once and that was just so I could use it. Doesn't really seem worth the extra cost, which is fairly significant, I think.
