[OSX-Users] Re: opinion: standalone smaill raid array

[m.c. schraefel]

Thanks for the recommendations.

The advantage of a box is
a) fewer cables
b) fewer power supplies
c) less power.

quiet would be very nice.

THis seems like something a bunch of companies 
would be leaping into with cheaper big disks, 
eSATA etc.

thanks all
drag to hear about lacie. the cases are so good.

mc

At 18:06 +0000 on 5/1/10, Steve Harris wrote:


>On 5 Jan 2010, at 15:56, m.c. schraefel wrote:
>>>Personally given the countless (well, around 
>>>10 or 12) Lacie power supplies I have replaced 
>>>over the past couple of years, I wouldn't 
>>>recommend any Lacie products to anyone, they 
>>>are over-priced bits of junk these days.
>>
>>
>>oh that's a drag. i was looking into maxtor but 
>>they've just been reaquired and products look 
>>not up to it.
>>
>>recommendations for this kind of configuration?
>
>Not Drobo either, I several people who've had 
>them fail, and there's no easy way to recover 
>the data when they do. You have to buy another 
>identical machine and switch the disks. That can 
>be hard if the model you have is out of 
>production.
>
>I use a linux box with a load of disks, but it's 
>not exactly trivial to setup. You can get 1.5TB 
>disks for under £100.
>
>- Steve