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    Fitting 4 (+?) 3.5" drvs in the Shuttle SH87R6?

    doh, no replies... well on another forum a nice poster pointed me to this: http://silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=407&area=en simple, cheap, and was pretty much exactly what I was looking for. I just thought I'd point this one out for those who might be interested.
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    Fitting 4 (+?) 3.5" drvs in the Shuttle SH87R6?

    Hi I move around alot but am not a fan of laptops so got a Shuttle SH87R6http://global.shuttle.com/products/productsDetail?productId=1707 which kind of suits my needs. The one thing that is bugging me is its factory drive capacity setup. Two things I'd like to consider: #1 Find a 5.25" bay...
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    Small 5bay cases/systems?

    Doh, important detail sorry to have forgotten it. Hotswap is actually not critical to me, would be nice to have but 5 bays is more important. Thanks for the links, i will check them out. I'm willing to pay a bit more for the convenience of something compact but guess I will weigh my options...
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    Small 5bay cases/systems?

    Despite this being the DIY section I am actually hoping to find a somewhat premade solution but am not totally against putting something together (just haven’t had a lot of time lately). I am hoping to find a system that is minimal in size (think 5bay drobo-ish in size) that is linux/bsd...
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    Best solution for redundant use of various disks (sizes, speeds, brands)?

    Another hardware setup scenario (feedback appreciated). I have been trying to figure out the least expensive/trouble setup for storage of various sized disks and the most recent idea i had was having something like say two raid/jbod towers (like the rosewill raid tower) + a mini computer +...
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    Adding drives with data to WHS?

    Thanks for the replies. I am a bit confused about WHS2011 though, i realize that drive extender has been removed but does 2011 have some other redundant storage solution built in? (that would allow pooling together of different sized drives?). If not... geeze, i was going to rely on WHS for some...
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    Adding drives with data to WHS?

    Hi, I have been looking around and haven't been able to find any postings/info that clearly says (I am sure it is out there): If a drive, with data on it, is added to a WHS using drive extender, will that data be lost or be added to the "pool" of data? (assume the drives to be added contain NTFS...
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    Best solution for redundant use of various disks (sizes, speeds, brands)?

    Perhaps I have been going about this all wrong. I really want a “one box” solution but more than that I want a fairly cheap solution, that is fairly low power, and that has lots of internal drive bays so far this has been elusive (the Via box I listed previously is close but finding it coupled...
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    Best solution for redundant use of various disks (sizes, speeds, brands)?

    Thanks Hydaral, yeah the more i read the less appropriate BtFS seems at the moment and the better solaris is looking. As for the case, yeah finding what i want is turning out to be a hell of alot harder than i thought it would. The closest i have some so far is Via's NSD-7800 which i am hoping...
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    Best solution for redundant use of various disks (sizes, speeds, brands)?

    Touche' :) Thanks for the suggestions. They are "in the ballpark" of what i am looking for however they seem to be full servers (big enough for full ATX mobos). Since the main task for this box would be serving up files i don't think I will need alot of horsepower and therefore was hoping...
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    Best solution for redundant use of various disks (sizes, speeds, brands)?

    Thanks to all for your replies. I Think the WHS and SunOS ZFS were closest to what I am looking for. My next question is hardware. I am looking for a realatively cheap, barebones, really compact, setup; say like one of the WHS with more bays (8+)(and hopefully a bit cheaper) or something like a...
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    Best solution for redundant use of various disks (sizes, speeds, brands)?

    Hi I have a drobo and a dns-323 and love them but they have a finite drive capacity so everyone once in a while i end up swaping out smaller drives and adding in larger drives but as a result I have lots (lots is relative i know) of smaller drives (750, 1tb 1.5 etc) that I would love to be able...
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    WHS Drive Extender + Addonics Mini Storage Tower?

    Hi, I have an Addonics "Mini Storage Tower" (with an esata/port multiplier). I previously just used the setup for spare drives but i recently found out about Windows Home Server "Drive Extender" which sounds like a nifty way to get a faux software RAID 5 of sorts but I was unsure if WHS DE would...
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    Possible to use different sized drives in a DIY NAS and still have redundancy?

    got it, thanks for the clarification! Another semi-related question, speaking of WHS, has anyone tried using greyhole for linux? seems promising but perhaps not ready for primetime (or maybe it is?). Cheers -Gaiko
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    Possible to use different sized drives in a DIY NAS and still have redundancy?

    I have a whole bunch of hard drives ranging from 750gb to 1.5tb and I was thinking about putting together my own NAS RAID-5 (or 6?) problem is I would like to use all these drives but have some redundancy, perhaps like raid 5/6? Is this possible? I read something about Windows Home Server's...
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    Mirroring two drives separately in the same NAS?

    Thanks for the synology info. As for the RAID 1 over RAID 6, I read (though i can't find the article now) an article by tim i think that said something to the effect that RAID1 is the safest (maybe recoverable?) setup. I am most certainly a noob and open to other solutions (haven't bought...
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    Mirroring two drives separately in the same NAS?

    you are right, but I work abroad and the remote i want to back to is in the US so really the "dual mirroring" in one box is just to save me from having to sync 4tb of data via the net. One drive dies, i still have another (instead of having to either wait for 4tb to sync up or go back to the US...
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    Mirroring two drives separately in the same NAS?

    Thanks so much for checking on that. That does help narrow the search down alot. As for the backup. The setup i am aiming for is to have the one RAID1 vol mirror the other RAID1 vol internally and then have that box mirror an offsite box (you answered a previous post of mine about remote...
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    Mirroring two drives separately in the same NAS?

    I have posted a bit about recommendations for 4bay NAS boxes in various places and have gotten a few responses. One thing that hasn’t been clear to me (I am a noob so perhaps I am just not understanding the obvious) is that of the 4 bay NAS boxes I have looked at they don’t really seem to...
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    Best way to sync NASs directly (not through computers)

    I just finished reading Kevin's "How To Back Up Offsite for Free with rsync" article and it was pretty useful *but* it dealt with doing rsync using a computer and i got the impression that it relied on using a static address (maybe there is no other way, i was {niavely?] hoping there was). My...
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