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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.

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...

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...

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...

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 +...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...