--- ScottMayo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I'm looking for is > > 1) RAID support. I want this to be my music and backup system; over > time I might want to get to 800G of fault-tolerant storage.
raid is not a backup; be careful relying on it for that. > 2) spin down is essential. I've never seen any raid setup that will spin down... maybe s/w raid could. > 3) lowish power and noise. I don't mind 30W peak. (My current music > server is a dual processor with bunches of fans; several disks and it > sounds like a jet revving for takeoff. Mercy knows what it's sucking > down in terms of wattage, but I can't live with it.) 800gb requires at least 3*400GB raid5 right now. that's 30W right there. Josh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
