pfarrell Wrote: > What is the attraction? What am I missing? Well, in my case, hardware raid 5 is a real attraction. I figure that the nuts, bolts 'n disks cost will always be dwarfed by the ripping / tagging time cost. I'm currently running my "production" slimserver on a self-built PC with a hacked version of WinXP that provides software raid 5. I assume I could accomplish the same with Linux with a little effort and head-scratching. Hardware raid will allow me to sleep just a little more soundly.
But beyond that, I guess there isn't all that much attraction with the NAS route other than the pleasure of frittering away time working with whacky hardware. What has mostly kept me out of the Linux realm up until now has been my lack of any broadband internet. I just got WildBlue satellite service a week ago, so now I'm going hog-wild. 4 gig download for the Fedora install DVD? Sure! Sign me up! My original plan has always been to do as you have done: migrate my XP box to linux, exile it heedlessly to the utility closet and just let it run. If this NAS doesnt work out, I guess that that is what Ill still do. -- gharris999 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
