[X4U] NAS Drive Recommendations

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On Apr 26, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Neil Laubenthal <neil at laubenthal.net> wrote:

> On Apr 26, 2012, at 3:39 PM,4/26, Joe Sporleder wrote:
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>> In my situation, the NAS would replace a Mac mini snow leopard server in a publishing workflow environment.
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> I'm still not sure that using standard FW drives isn't more economical even in that configuration. Another issue with the NAS is that it's a one-of kind of thing. If you have issues with it then you're dead in the water until you can get it fixed or replaced and reconfigured. Standard drives give you more flexibility. If you're really concerned about having a RAID then you could do that with either Disk Utility or SoftRAID as well; although I personally prefer the extra flexibility of the stand alone drives.
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Sorry for the spurious 'send'...

Anyway, the main things a NAS brings to the party are large capacity and high availability. With a 6-drive array, for example, one could have TWO drives fail but the NAS would continue to operate and the data would remain intact. Should the NAS itself fail, you would not be dead in the water if you had a second NAS as a backup.

And yes, this added capability is much more expensive than using stand-alone drives.

Enjoy!

Jim