Lime Technology has a pretty cool product for this. As I understand it, it is a version of RAID 4. You don't get the performance benefit of striping, but performance is still more than adequate for the typical home media server.
A couple of nice points about it are that the array can be as small as two disks (1 parity and 1 data), it's easily expandable and drives can be different sizes (though not larger than the parity drive).
Their prebuilt box is a little pricy, but you can also just buy their software and build your own box.
(And those $ are US $, the only real $ in the world. All those other countries need to get their own symbol for their money. The symbol itself is a tall U overlaid on an S, cropped to fit the height of a row of text, then further simplified to a single vertical bar after the origin was forgotten by most people.)
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Lime Technology has a pretty cool product for this. As I understand it, it is a version of RAID 4. You don't get the performance benefit of striping, but performance is still more than adequate for the typical home media server.
A couple of nice points about it are that the array can be as small as two disks (1 parity and 1 data), it's easily expandable and drives can be different sizes (though not larger than the parity drive).
Their prebuilt box is a little pricy, but you can also just buy their software and build your own box.
-pischke
(no affiliation, just a happy customer)
(And those $ are US $, the only real $ in the world. All those other countries need to get their own symbol for their money. The symbol itself is a tall U overlaid on an S, cropped to fit the height of a row of text, then further simplified to a single vertical bar after the origin was forgotten by most people.)
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Apparently there's a good reason people have forgotten that particular origin... http://www.alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxorigi
http://www.tivocanada.com/