On 5/17/2011 2:06 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>
>>> The interest of a NAS is that it provides a strong RAID system with
>>> a lightweight Linux system on top - and this at a reasonable price.
>>
>> Yeah... No.  No it does not.  It provides *EXACTLY* the same RAID system
>> that you can get with *any* old Linux system.
>
> Probably not even as good as you can put together yourself.
>
> My advice is to get a 3ware RAID card and whatever disks you like for it.
> There's some sharp corners on the management interface; but at least it
> *has* a management interface that's consistent and sensible compared to the
> Dell crap I've had to suffer through (on the occasions I could get it to
> work).

That's good advice for large arrays or more complex raid levels, but 
with the current price of disks it is pretty hard to justify compared to 
simple mirroring.  And I've always liked the fact that in the case of 
software raid1 you can recover the data from any single disk connected 
to any physically compatible interface even if that's all that is left 
of the original setup.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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