Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> -----Original Message----- > My problem with ReadyNAS is the filesystem. If you're paranoid (and if > you're not, why bother with RAID), then it is a little uneasy knowing > that the disks are formatted in a proprietary way. I have a second NV+ in a different location that has an rsync connection as a push from the first, if original server dies then nothing will be pushed. I also copy it to a local single disk as another backup ;-) > John can correct me here, because he sounds like he knows more about > this than I do, but mirroring disks will give you good protection > against disk failure. With a striped set-up, you get quicker access to > your data. Technically RAID 5 is slower to write but quicker to read than RAID 1 (and the more disks in an R5 the quicker it gets), however I doubt you will see this in a single user environment ;-) john