Nice looking 'disk array'

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:25:28AM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> The next time I'm looking to do any disk expansion, I think I'm going
> to look at some of the new "NAS" options...
> 
> One that looks pretty attractive is the Infrant ReadyNAS.
> 
> Empty of disk, it's about $800 CDN; it then supports up to 4 SATA
> drives, speaking RAID with that so that with 4 250GB drives, you'd
> have, with redundancy, 0.75TB of storage.
> 
> According to the FAQ, it's actually running Linux.
> http://www.infrant.com/wiki/index.php/FAQ
> 
> Yes, I could throw a SATA controller onto an existing box; the
> "appliance" approach here strikes me as being increasingly attractive.
> 
> Has anyone tried one of these?

Hmm, so for $400 I can add 4 250GB drives to my system, use md software
raid, and know how it works, how to fix it, and how to move it to a new
controller later if my system dies for some reason.  I can even add more
disks and resize it if I want to.

For $800 + $00, I can have the same size raid, but have no clue how it
works, or how to fix it if it breaks, and it my controller dies, I have
probably lost my data.  I can't expand it past the 4 disks ever.

I guess I just don't get it. :)  Those poor windows users of course
don't get software raid for free, so they are forced to spend more money
on such things, but of course windows users are used to spending money
to get trivial features (just check the cost of windows vista).

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