I made the change from a RAID-based system to a FlexRAID system for my home media server several months ago and love it. My biggest fear with running a RAID based on consumer drives is that I'll have a 2nd drive fail while recovering from the 1st failure, at which point you're screwed. Yes, RAID 6 helps but it's still a concern.
If you have an application where uptime is a priority, then RAID is probably the way to go. But if your application is data redundancy and backup, then I would look to other approaches. --------- Brian On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Gary Udstrand <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, BTW. Where did you get the drives? That seems like a great price. > :-) > > Thanks! > > -- > Gary > http://www.twigsandtracks.com > Twigs snap and tracks fade, a photograph reacquaints > Twigs and Tracks Blog Superior > Sunrise< > http://blog.twigsandtracks.com/2012/03/08/superior-sunrise/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=superior-sunrise > > > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Jason Chue <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just curious... How do you see using the 1512+ to be more advantageous > than > > say building your own NAS? > > > > BTW, just bought the 4 units of the 3tb WD Red drives for about USD 170 > > each after conversion. > > > > Jason > > >
