[fr] En train de mettre un SSD dans mon vieux Macbook (performance!), ce qui signifie stockage distant de mes données: disque dur externe, serveur maison Amahi, et Crashplan pour les backups.
I’ve been drooling on the MacBook Air over the past weeks, to the point I’ve pretty much decided it’ll be my next machine. Sure, a MacBook Pro is way more powerful, but do I need all that extra power? The eternal question when changing computers.
I understood that one of the things that make the Air zippy is the SSD. But why wait for another machine to have an SSD? I’m going to put one in my MacBook directly (I’ve already changed the hard drive twice, no biggie thanks to ifixit). Actually, I would be doing this now, if I hadn’t by mistake ordered a 3.5″ SSD instead of 2.5″ (I have two on my hands by the way, if anybody is interested in buying them off me, still in their unopened box).
The reason it took me so long to warm up to SSD strategy is the price. Horribly expensive per Gb, compared to a “normal” hard drive! But what I’ve understood is that if you go the SSD way, you also stop storing all your data on those expensive Gb. You keep the expensive SSD Gb for your OS and applications, and all the data that is just “storage” goes on something slower.
For example, an external hard drive (I’m going to have a 2.5″ 500 Gb one once I swap it out) or… an Amahi Home Server, like the one I’m currently building. The server is a good solution for me to keep my data on a flexible redundant system (Greyhole).
Add to that Crashplan, which plays nice with Amahi, and the server will also allow me to host distant backups for my friends (with the idea that they might also allow me to use some of their storage space for mine). VPN acces, etc.
Right, I’m going back to my hardware!
Thanks for the kind words! SSD’s play very nicely with Linux as well. Many users utilize an SSD drive for the OS and leave the shares on cheaper rotational disk. We completely understand about the cost per GB when it comes to storage! So if you still have a SSD drive think about putting that in your HDA for your OS!
Cheers!
Peter Cross
Community Manager
Amahi
Or for your centralised server, you could also consider using a NAS with RAID1 or 5. I just bought a QNAP TS-212 two weeks ago and I’m quite satisfied with… The nice thing about QNAP NAS is that they’re ready to use, easy to configure, and Mac (even for TimeMachine)/Windows/Linux compliant. You can also use it as a web server. And for the green touch, the TS-212 consum only 12W in use…
Well, you can see that I’m delighted with it? 😉