On 02/02/2012 08:38 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > I'm shortly going to be in the market for a 4-bay NAS box for my home storage. > > I don't need CPU horsepower. This will be pure file service. Any computing > needs will continue to be supported by my Mac minis. > > I do want capacity, thus the desire for a 4-bay unit. I want populate it > with 4x2TB configured as RAID 5 and I can populate it myself after the fact. > It can ship empty or with a single drive that I can reconfigure myself after > the fact unless I can get a good price on a fully populated chassis. > > Quiet operation is required although silent operation isn't a necessity. > > So I ask, what out there is going to fit the bill without breaking the bank? While the WD MyBook is only 2-bay, I found the device extremely silent, reliable, and low cost. It is also slow. We use it only for backup. I use rsnapshot (had to install optware) with 2 backups a day and our New York office backs us up once a day.
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