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Re: Advice on storage needed . . .
Neil Fuller wrote:
> Drobo's 8 bay NAS looks quite attractive, especially because it will
> take any disk of any size and seems to still offer RAID.
> ...
> In the past, I've read so many stories of "my home brew NAS RAID
card
> has just trashed all my storage" I'd prefer to go down the
purpose built
> route. I also want everything to be available all the time so it needs
> to be big - Telling SWMBO she needs to plug in x or y USB 2 drive to
get
> access to her DVDs wouldn't go down well.
>
Be aware that the Drobo isn't a traditional NAS. You need a host machine
to talk iSCSI to it over ethernet and handle the sharing functions AIUI...
Jim
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