affordable and noise-free (in standby) Raid 5 System

[niclas197]

Hi,

I'am looking for a 3 or 4 Bay Raid 5 System with Firewire 800 for my Mac. I have found some (Promise Smartstor ds4600 for example) which are in the price range.
The only problem is that my Mac is located in the room I am sleeping in, so the Raid device should not produce any noise when the drives are spun down.

Is there any solution you can recommend?

 

[kuebby]

You might consider an OWC enclosure. (macsales.com) I just got one of their 2-drive RAID enclosures and I really like it. The fan is pretty loud when it's running but I use it for media file backup so I only have it turned on when I'm actually using it so it doesn't bother me.

 

[zhenya]

What about using a gigabit connected NAS instead? Faster even than FW800, and you can now put it anywhere in your house, instead of having to have it in the same room.