NAS itself just means Network Attached Storage. So basically a hard disk on the network for everyone to access and share.
The ReadyNAS is 'cool' because it is also a hardward based RAID5. meaning, you get data redundancy. In a 4 disk RAID5 config, you have have up to 2 disks died on you without losing a single file. and you can then hot swap hdd (bad ones) out and replace them with good hdd of the same capacity. the RAID will rebuild itself for full protection. Imagine losing 400GB of music... ouch... -- WSLam WSLam SB2 | Linn CD12 | Unidisk 1.1 | TacT RCS2.0s | Placette Audio Balanced Passive Preamp | Mark Levinson No.33H | Revel Ultima Salon 'Photo of my Setup' (http://photos.lam.ws/thumbnails.php?album=62) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
