Re: OT: Yet Another Unhappy Customer for Vista

Jasen wrote:

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)


Exactamente.


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.


I can certainly do the big box thing and have one large RAID machine in the basement. But I wanted to keep it small and simple, plus I don't need terabytes of storage.

Considering the number of people who run small networks at home I was thinking there'd be enough of a market for backup and file sharing across a LAN or WLAN. It doesn't have to be industrial strength, for example it would be ok if the whole thing quits upon a power supply failure as long as that doesn't take the data with it.

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