--- 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


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