RAID allows to combine harddisks (well, some Microsoft does allow that as well, but... :D ) - might be an advantage since slightly smaller drives are cheaper (for the price of one of the mentioned new 1TB drives, you would probably get three 500GB ones ;) ). I agree that its not replacing a real backup though, but its a step, and RAID 5 doesn't take as much space as RAID 1.
Regarding the overkill and price factor: check how much power your PC consumes and how much your desired NAS would (since you would probably keep it up 24/7 just for that). In Germany, after about two years (depends on the model of course) what a NAS saved in power consumption will start to be more than you paid for it upfront. -- CCRDude ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CCRDude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8478 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31522 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
