Michaelwagner Wrote: > Mark: Why the requirement for 2 drives? You're right - in my present system, I only use 1 drive and back it up to an external drive.
I guess I still had it in my mind of trying to compete with the NAS boxes. The higher-end consumer ones use drives in RAID 1 or RAID 5. Of course there are drawbacks to that - if your drive controller fails you have useless data unless you get the same exact drive controller to replace it. With ClarkConnect I would've been using software RAID, which is slightly more failure-prone and would corrupt both discs if it failed. No backup in this case would mean loss of data. Also with 2 discs powered by the same power supply, if something were to happen to the power supply they may both be damaged. Plus 2 discs pushes the power and heat dissipation requirements up. > Did you find any prices on that iBT web site? Nope. They seem to supply to industry - they supply a lot of SBCs and PC104-type PCs, including some unique high temperature SBCs. Note an SBC in a PC104 configuration would work well for SlimServer too, the problem is finding a case. With industrial suppliers like that, they may not supply to individuals either. And the "no prices" thing is meant to deter people like us from comparison shopping. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25892 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
