Re: OT: Yet Another Unhappy Customer for Vista

On 2007-05-30, Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John Larkin wrote:

I wish there were small backup RAID assemblies that you can just hang on
the LAN where the whole thing would show up as one shared drive. Most I
saw were USB, very few had a LAN port but those only had one drive in it
without the possibility to connect several as RAID.

it sounds like you want NAS, (Network attached storage)

A case with a nice big fan (hard drives like it windy) a bunch of disks
with (probably) software raid-6 or just mirroring and a low maintenance
operating system running the fileserver.

If it's not simple mirroring I prefer software raid to hardware raid,
because whereas if it's proprietry hardware raid controller and fails
you've got extra work to recover your data.

Bye.
Jasen
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