2009/11/20 Pádraig Brady <P at draigbrady.com>
> John P. Looney wrote:
> > Nah, main need is 3 or 4 drives.
> >
> > Turns out it's hard to beat smuggling a N4100Pro in from the US; $380
> for a
> > four disk NAS with hardware RAID5.
>> Hardware RAID is worse than software RAID right?
> See the last paragraph here:
>http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/hard_disk_reliability/#RAID>
Depends on the processor. You don't get much software raid5 out of a 300mhz
mips, which is what I have in my current NAS. If you are willing to pay the
power price for something beefy, sure...
john
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