WSLam wrote:
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...
That product may be doing a hot-swap plus a 3-disk RAID, but if you've
got a N-disk RAID and you lose more than 1 disk, you're screwed. RAID5
cannot recover from N-2 disks, only N-1.
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