On 05/17 02:05 , Timothy J Massey wrote: > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote on 05/17/2011 > 01:11:42 PM: > > > The interest of a NAS is that it provides a strong RAID system with > > a lightweight Linux system on top - and this at a reasonable price. > > Yeah... No. No it does not. It provides *EXACTLY* the same RAID system > that you can get with *any* old Linux system.
Probably not even as good as you can put together yourself. My advice is to get a 3ware RAID card and whatever disks you like for it. There's some sharp corners on the management interface; but at least it *has* a management interface that's consistent and sensible compared to the Dell crap I've had to suffer through (on the occasions I could get it to work). Admittedly I work on machines that are usually 1000+ miles away, so the quality of the management interface is very important to me. However, if you can't manage your devices, they aren't much good to you. Also, the 3ware driver has been built into the kernel for years. Support is very solid. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
