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

[Daniel Thorpe]

Well.... One of the benefits of BeyondRAID, the Drobo's propriety system, is that it will accept pretty much any SATA drives. They don't need to all be the same or matched as with many RAID solutions. Currently in my Drobo I have four different drives, from 3 different manufacturers, and 3 different sizes, acquired over a significant period of time. 

On 5 Jan 2010, at 20:03, Philip Boulain wrote:

> 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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