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    Vendor advice

    I am seeking general NAS vendor advice. I have notice many NAS distributors don't have stock on-hand and these devices must be ordered. I am concerned if I need to make a return for a defective unit I will have to pay return shipping and possibly a restocking fee (15-20%) if I am out of their...
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    Replicate NAS to NAS via second LAN port

    All, Anybody have any experience whether some of the 4HD NAS can support using their 2nd LAN port to connect directly to a second NAS as a backup target? The goal here would be to get the backup off of the main network and increase bandwidth for the backup activity. e.g. current network is...
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    How reliable are these NAS boxes?

    Agree, RAID will fail... so backup too! Just wanted to reference a post I made about the unreliability of consumer disks and raid. You may want to look at: http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=2421 Thanks and good luck! zoo
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    RAID6 is only safe storage >1TB

    Bummed about Drobo I looked at the drobo. It has some very appealing features: - isolation from managing disks (not like raid). It also has some strong shortcomings: 1) Requires a host computer (I want NAS). 2) Does not support EXT4 FS. 3) separate box required for networking 4) DroboPro...
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    RAID6 is only safe storage >1TB

    All, I wanted to start a thread to see how many people are using RAID 6 in their NAS? I am surprised by how many people are using RAID5 for 1TB+ drives. The following articles describe how probability starts working against you when you attempt to rebuild a failed RAID5 setup with 1TB+...
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