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    Data Robotics new DroboPro

    I like the idea of the new DroboPro and that one can add the additional disk redundancy as an option. Anyone know if the DroboPro can be added to the end of a Time Capsule (via USB)? If so and you have a house or small business full of Macs, this would provide silly amounts of storage for...
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    Firewire NAS

    With firewire, it might work. But with USB 2.0, I know that any time I have attempted to connect two different systems' USB ports together, it just shuts both of the USB subsystems down, making them inoperable. (NOTE: This may not be the case for you or even all systems, but for the limited...
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    New To The Charts: Cached Performance Filters

    I had actually wondered a bit about this myself, so it is nice to see it being addressed. Good work! :) -Biggly
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    Intel SS4200 running FreeBSD 7.1 with 4 x 1.5 TB seagate drives

    You know this sounds oddly like an issue I had... Simple Ubuntu box with an IDE boot drive and a single SATA HDD. I had Ubuntu 7....uh, I cannot recall if it was 7.04 or 7.10. Anyway, I did a full distro upgrade and suddenly it could no longer see the SATA drive. Apparently with some of the...
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    Pulling ahead of the RAID 5 Pack: QNAP TS-509 Pro Reviewed

    Tim, One thing that was pointed out to me by my boss (he's looking to replace a NAS at his house and the two options are Netgear ReadyNAS Pro and the QNAP TS-509) is that supposedly the QNAP has online volume expansion, which sounds awfully similar to XRAID/XRAID-2 offered by Netgear...
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    NETGEAR kicks loose Six-Bay SMB NASes

    I have some questions about the snapshot functionality: How flexible is the schedule for the snapshots? How much space do they tend to take up? And how much space could one conceivably allocate for snapshots? What happens when the allocated snapshot space runs out? Does it bleed over to...
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    NETGEAR kicks loose Six-Bay SMB NASes

    I see the results of the ReadyNAS Pro has placed it pretty high in the speed category. Awesome is all I have to say; I think that the X-RAID/X-RAID2 is really the type of technology that is going to be the ease of use that most folks who need something at home that is expandable would want to...
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    General NAS questions

    Ooh, that's the tough part. If it is already in RAID, then to make them 'single' drives again (typically) requires somewhere to offload the data to. You said that your external drive died last time a transfer was attempted; perhaps now is the time to replace the external? :) The program I...
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    General NAS questions

    Anytime. Love the site! On an unrelated note, I saw your blurb about a NAS possibly incorporating Mozy onto it (best of all worlds really IMO) and thus I emailed Mozy about it. They said that they knew of nothing, but if they did then they likely wouldn't know until it was already public...
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    General NAS questions

    Who me? Oh I'm not looking to change anything; I was trying to give an answer to the original poster's question. Though that response was more longwinded that I had intended. Thing is, given my somewhat unconventional setup, I get a lot of derision over it and was trying to head off the...
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    General NAS questions

    I agree that RAID is not backup. Though the question begs, how does one use a singular box in order to back up their data? My feeling on it is this: RAID is a level of protection, but with a single part failure (RAID controller card, or motherboard in the case of most on-board RAID...
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