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In Reply to: RE: If I copy all my music files on my external drive onto a NAS... posted by Steve Parry on September 13, 2011 at 11:56:23
If you aren't against Windows, you might think about something like this:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859105777
Little box, but it has four drive trays (three free, as the 1TB drive is using one). So, $399 for the computer with Windows Home Server, $210 for three Hitachi 2TB drives, and another $50 or so to bring up the ram to 8GB.
Less than $700, and you have 7TB of very flexible storage. WHA supports automated backup of the other computers in your house (even Macs) to the server too, so says the advert. Last I read, it can intelligently spread the data across disks for redundancy. It isn't RAID in the traditional sense, but it provides some security against drive failure. It also supports 'shadow copies' which help prevent against accidental deletions and stuff like that. For $700, it is a pretty feature packed setup, is tiny, and uses very little power. It definitely supports Squeezebox software.
I wish I had an excuse to get one for me.
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