FOAK: Digital SLR

I looked at Drobos and Buffalo products, but the prices were all a bit
silly (north of 500 quid for 4TB). So far the Netgear has been great,
and the support available at www.readynas.com is excellent. It runs a
Linux variant too, so you can actually run other stuff on it too. I
run the Transmission bittorrent client on it.

 

Yes, of course. Writing in a hurry yesterday. It's actually got a
Netgear version of RAID1 called RAID-X. Same as RAID1 but can
dynamically expand the disc size if you want to add more storage. Say
you've got two 1TB discs in. You replace one with a 2TB and it
mirrors the 1TB over to it, still only giving you 1TB of storage in
total. Then you replace the other 1TB drive with a 2TB and it mirrors
over to that, but now you have 2TB of mirrored storage.

Quite a clever way of doing it, and allows you to increase storage as
bigger drives become available without having to increase the number
of drives.

 

Don't forget to check the HCL before doing so...

http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=82