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Re: Advice Requested
« on: December 10, 2007, 06:40:50 PM »
BEWARE:  Using a RAID with a NAS/etc makes your *NAS* a potential single-point failure!

As most devices implement RAID in different ways, if you NAS dies you will likely be unable to read the data on your RAID HDs.

The solutions are:
1. Buy an identical backup NAS , or
2. Don't use RAID, but simply use a traditional backup system, possibly in combination with a (non-RAID) NAS...
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Re: Advice Requested
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2007, 05:11:16 PM »
@Hans
Different mobos implement RAID in incompatible ways, presumably due to different chipsets.

So you *might* be able to find a compatible RAID implementation, if you NAS/*etc* dies, but I wouldn't count on it for my precious data...


This isn't a problem for big server providers (that RAID was originally designed for), because they have a rooms full of identical servers.
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