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

[Philip Boulain]

Terry Payne wrote:
> Drobo is a propriety RAID system...

Dare I ask what the point of RAID in a *home* NAS is? RAID is good to 
keep availability up for things like the ECS servers, but it's hardly a 
data reliability mechanism when both drives are the same age from the 
same manufacturer, likely from the same batch, subjected to the same 
load patterns, mounted in the same physical case, hooked up to the same 
power supply, and controlled by the same software.

Hugh's suggestion of a Time Capsule, or the also popular combination of 
putting a big external drive on a Mac Mini, seems more practical to me; 
no proprietary RAID hardware meddling with the disk layout and making it 
unreadable by anything else.

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