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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
Technically, I don't really need that many hard drives. But I do have a lot of data, and a bunch of external hard drives that would be nice to put internal. I also tend to always have extra drives that I prefer to make use of rather than to spend money on a larger replacement drive. A lot of current systems also support RAID options, which I would like to try out. Plus I also like to have an internal drive to do frequent backups. (An external drive is still needed for backups on a less regular basis, but for the frequent stuff a separate internal drive should be sufficient.)
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Hi bob,
From my experience traditional RAID it's rarely worth it for home users, as it tends to be tricky to config and manage.
For your needs I'd take a look at
Drobo (or infrant readyNAS if you are up to it)
Basically it's an auto-expanding usb RAID array. (so no need to ever rebuild)
You'll have ever-expanding redundant storage
While a bit expensive, and slow, Drobo it's easy, somehow portable and transparent to the OS and the user. (plus, then you have your external backup...)
So, my advice, get a value (>$400) brand pc and a Drobo.(or even better , an infrant)
(on the other hand if you are gonna use Ubuntu then, by all means, go for it )
Just my two cents, anyway.
