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Thank you so much! BTW, I really enjoyed pouring though you many articles on NAS, 2 weeks ago, I had absolutely no idea what a NAS was. Now at least I can ask questions!

Both the QNAP and Synology state they can format to EXT3 filesystem (I thought they would be compatible, so if later on in the lifecycle something goes wrong, but the drives are intact, I wouldn't be able to retrieve the info on them? (even though RAID is a standard?)

I realize there are software out there that can clone/image/ghost my desktop system drives in case any of connected desktops OS drive crashes and store them to the NAS. But how do I recover the OS system drive images from a connected NAS backup back to a newly replaced drive in the crashed...

Thanks so much, Do you feel there's a $120 difference between the two companies, the performance and features seem pretty similar, so the extra $120 gets me a display and extra eSATA port? What do you think?

So if the PS or MB failed, could I just take the 4 drives out and put it into my desktop (that supports RAID5) and be able to access those drives to retrieve information? Or can I buy another RAID5 box (not necessarily the same manufacturer or model) and insert those drives into any other RAID5...

Thanks for the clarification, I just thought the hardware level RAID would perform better than the OS level duplication - I've read that the WHS duplication disc balancing severely slows/bogs down the system and can take days. Yes, I intend to back up the WHS or RAID box at sometime later...

Thanks so much thiggins, I won't need more than 10 connections. I think I get the WHS duplication thing, but since its just a CPU and Intel ICHR-7 - won't that support RAID at the hardware level (I guess that would assume drivers for RAID in WHS?)? Wouldn't it be great to have a $299 RAID 5...

It states that its got a Intel 945GC Express Chipset + ICH7R - doesn't that support RAID at the hardware level? Can't I install WHS on RAID5 (or do a server recovery to a 4 disk RAID 5 array) and have the redundancy of RAID5 without WHS's overhead of duplication? My worry is if the motherboard...

I can't find too much about WHS other than the Microsoft sales literature but that's vague. Are WHS RAIDed? There is disk duplication, but what is that, can I use one of the disks there for backup against drive failures? What about a controller board failure, can I take the drives out and put...

There's a sale on the Acer Aspire Easystore H340 Home Server - would this fill my needs? I can't find too much about WHS other than the Microsoft sales literature but that's vague. Are WHS RAIDed? There is disk duplication, but what is that, can I use one of the disks there for backup...

Thank you for the quick reply, Is there anyway or program that I can use to measure to find out if the transcoding program (PS3 Media Server) is doing the buffering in sufficient size to keep the streaming smooth? Will you be doing a review of the QNAP TS-419P soon? (especially how it...

Hi all, After spending days on this great site, I have finally narrowed my choices down to either the QNAP TS419p or Synology DS-409 (and learned so much!). This is just a home server/backup setup - I'd just like a single portable device to take and run in case of fire or something like...