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Best eSATA JBOD?
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From reading the initial question, it really sounds like all he needs is a reliable redundant scalable storage, for a personal media server. I suggest the drobo or drobo pro depending on budget. (http://drobo.com) they are cheap and very easy to manage. Using BeyondRAID you get the redundancy of RAID without the headaches. Check it out, it's worth it.
The only downside in respect to the post is that it does not have an eSATA port. But FW800 or iSCSI over ethernet will do just fine to serve all sorts of media to a dozen clients.
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From reading the initial question, it really sounds like all he needs is a reliable redundant scalable storage, for a personal media server. I suggest the drobo or drobo pro depending on budget. (http://drobo.com) they are cheap and very easy to manage. Using BeyondRAID you get the redundancy of RAID without the headaches. Check it out, it's worth it. The only downside in respect to the post is that it does not have an eSATA port. But FW800 or iSCSI over ethernet will do just fine to serve all sorts of media to a dozen clients.