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steffi

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Jun 7, 2003
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I don't need video editing or anything just a reliable place to dump files with redundancy.
 
I have been successfully using an Onnto DataTale quad interface, and now I have bought the USB3 version.

These can be had for a very good price, but not from many places. There's also a more expensive TB version, but still very competitive.

I chose them because they support 1+0, can be flexibly configured as multiple volumes, and can be managed by software, and a reconfiguration password set (I avoid RAID enclosures that are only managed by buttons).

I think the speed is OK.

What you will not be able to do is grow a volume after it has been created. For this you need something a lot more expensive, like Areca.
 
I don't need video editing or anything just a reliable place to dump files with redundancy.

I have one of these which I populated with 4 x 3TB HGST Deskstar NAS HDDs to give me a RAID5 volume of 9TB. These are G-Tech (part of HGST) brand and work very well. You can put up to 4 x 6TB into them, giving you up to 18TB in RAID5 storage. Bear in mind, you need to put 4 drives of the exact same make/size in them.

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/MISC/0G033S2TB0GB/
 
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