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exile;323533 Wrote: > my personal feeling is that a RAID setup is overkill. I work with RAIDS > professionally and they do work well but in a home environment it's not > necessary. I would disagree. With the amount of data I'm talking about I would need 8x 500GB and 8x1TB drives. That is a significant difference, especially as i would have needed to go with a very large PC case and custom build a server with at least one pretty expensive RAID card to get all those ports (or a couple of cheaper ones i guess). a 5 drive RAID-5 NAS is pretty easy to set up and get working, they don't take up much space either. Granted I'm not a average home user, but still, i think there are a significant number like me on here and other forums i frequent :) -- funkstar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50299 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
