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

[Hugh Glaser]

I use a Windows 7 server (was 2000) with a bunch of disks, but that won't
help you either :-)

However, I am a bit puzzled that you don't go for the Time Capsule.
(You are running a Mac at the moment, I think.)
It is one area where Apple aren't too expensive (list 388 for the 2T
version) where the Lacie is 513 for 4T.
And certainly stands a chance of reducing a lot of cables and even power for
you on the networking front.

And if you want redundancy, you will only get 2T out of the Lacie, but the
Time Capsule can happily expand with an external disk (which it can be set
up to back up to), which can even be taken off site if you are appropriately
paranoid. (As I understand.)

And of course it is fanless (although I think quite a few fans).


On 05/01/2010 19:11, "m.c. schraefel" <mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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
> 
>