garym wrote: > I might drop the RAID requirement when looking at options. Of course > RAID is *not* a backup solution. (google for plenty of horror stories > for those that thought RAID meant backup!). RAID is useful for > operations where any downtime is a real problem or costly (bank, online > merchant,etc.). Immediate access to backup is not typically needed for > personal files. +100 RAID != backup
For the two purposes the OP mentioned (serving music and backing up 3 Macbook Pros) it's hard to see a need for RAID. On the other hand, the need for an offline (and ideally off-site) backup is crystal clear. Of course, 8GB RAM is complete overkill for those purposes, too, so maybe there is some other use that is driving these choices. NB: I had to google 'demigrator', as I'd never come across it before. Yikes, another reason for not running WHS.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99871 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
