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Something like this

cool. That's exactly what I was thinking of. I just couldn't find it online.

I have friend that is running something a little bigger and has 1 terrabyte of disk space almost used up for his MP3 collection. I don't have that much patience to get that much music on a PC. I prefer to drop in the disc of choice.

Oh, God, they're geeking out again.

That USB box doesn't seem like that great of a deal; it's just a case and fans, right? You still need a mobo, memory, processor, controller, etc. I thought the limeware thing was pretty cool, though.

I know RAID is now "sexy computing power for the masses" but I'm just not sure it's necessary. I guess it depends on how much storage you REALLY need, and how fast you need it to be. Personally, I think maintaining another whole system can be kind of a pain. You really just need more storage, right? Drives are cheap.

It seems to me that NAS devices like this - or even external USB drives - are the future. Unless you REALLY need to be able to hot swap drives, why not just get a couple of these and automate the backups using Syncback or something?

I know. I'll be burned at the stake eventually. I just hope it's for something worthwhile.

RAID 1 would be nice. I don't need to hot swap, but on the other hand I would certainly like the data backed up. Ripping my entire DVD collection again if the drive(s) fail would SUCK.

Would something like this work?

Throw four 500gb drives into it, and I'd have a full 1TB of fully backed up storage, no?

Craig, you'll need a better geek than me. Fortunately, there are lots of them around.

I like the price of that unit, and the fact that it comes with a card and a cable. I DON'T like the fact that it is a software RAID solution. It just doesn't seem like there is any getting around the notion that - for true hardware RAID - you need to have the disks reside in the same box as a RAID-capable controller card. Which implies a separate system, rather than just a storage appliance.

How much storage do you need? It might be worth looking into something like the Western Digital MyBook II Pro XL Super Duper Whatever It's Called drives. Those have hardware mirroring of 2 drives--so there's a potential capacity of 750 GB mirrored.

That unit holds 4 drives. Couldn't you put four 500gb drives and get 1TB of backed up storage that way? (or even four 750gb drives and get 1.5TB)

OOPPSS You are correct.