joebandit wrote:
...No hardware raid controller, never trusted raid anyway, besides, who wants to waste an entire drive using raid5. If they could be used as JBOD, I would have. Besides. I backup every system in the house, or I did using WHS, which crashed all the time.
Good call on the RAID thing, I am sure that IBM, EMC, Hitachi, Oracle, Xratex, Network Appliance, Data Direct Networks, LSI, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple as well as many, many others will be coming around to your same way of thinking.
Do you really stand by the above statement? Really? Considering your statement it is clear that you are for sure not the average user, no sir! The average user would not consider hanging that many drives off of the likes of a USB JBOD and consider it a viable global backup repository.
And RAID5 is generally going to come at the cost of N-2, hot spare for background rebuilds of a failed stripe.
I would strongly recommend that you reassess your misinformed opinion regarding RAID and the relative security it brings to your valuable data all at the cost of a little bit of storage.
Tony and Ralph put up a fine little appliance for the basic user looking for the basic NAS they can deploy in minutes. They support Hardware RAID for a reason, with the right hardware and implementation it increases data integrity and storage speeds on both reads and writes.
Now, you are making it very hard for me to refrain from wholesale crapping on you when you make statements such as the one above. I and others will be more than happy to help educate you on ways that you can better utilize you hardware. The point of this forum is support.
Mike