It is much easier to create a NAS that far outperforms your needs. For example, how many users do you have accessing the hard drives at once? If your answer is less than 10, you probably will be able to get along fine with 7200 rpm drives. Also, if you are just setting this up attached to your home network, RAID is not necessary because the network can most likely only transfer data at 10/100 speeds.
Right now, my NAS is a Slackware linux box with a 166 mhz pentium running four 200GB IDE drives. I get around 5 mb/s per user. The major factor seems to be the amount of ram in the NAS. I just upgraded to 1 GB because it is so cheap for PC 100 ram.
Overall, make sure you know what is important and dont overspend for features you cant use.
With the advancement of Quantum Computing we must call into question our own existence. There is a philisophical theory that exists, which states:
A race of intelligent lifeforms reached the technological advancement of quantum computing and we are living in a simulated world running on a quantum computer the size of a laptop. When we finally achieve quantum computing would it not be interesting to simulate our entire evolution in extreme detail. If we are able to accurately simulate the universe then it is feasible that it has already been done and we are the simulation.
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That is RAID 0 by the way. Obviously, RAID 1 would be useful if you needed the redundancy.
It is much easier to create a NAS that far outperforms your needs. For example, how many users do you have accessing the hard drives at once? If your answer is less than 10, you probably will be able to get along fine with 7200 rpm drives. Also, if you are just setting this up attached to your home network, RAID is not necessary because the network can most likely only transfer data at 10/100 speeds. Right now, my NAS is a Slackware linux box with a 166 mhz pentium running four 200GB IDE drives. I get around 5 mb/s per user. The major factor seems to be the amount of ram in the NAS. I just upgraded to 1 GB because it is so cheap for PC 100 ram. Overall, make sure you know what is important and dont overspend for features you cant use.
With the advancement of Quantum Computing we must call into question our own existence. There is a philisophical theory that exists, which states:
A race of intelligent lifeforms reached the technological advancement of quantum computing and we are living in a simulated world running on a quantum computer the size of a laptop. When we finally achieve quantum computing would it not be interesting to simulate our entire evolution in extreme detail. If we are able to accurately simulate the universe then it is feasible that it has already been done and we are the simulation.