On 4/26/07, Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Benjamin Gramlich [mailto:benjamin.gramlich at gmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:51 PM > > > > > > I, too, have been looking at setting up and NAS because I've > > heard that > > external HDDs have a high failure rate. Wouldn't the tradeoff in speed > > be worth it for reliability of an NAS? > > Let others address this. I don't have enough knowledge here. With the NSLU2 NAS unit you use external drives (USB) - so it really depends on the enclosure. These enclosures run really cool -> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145162 I have 2 and have "installed" 6 others for family/friends small office.... a bit of noise with the fan, but the case itself is never warm to the touch. I have not had any problems for 2 years now with these enclosures (YMMV of course). > In other words, is it better to > > have 100mb/s and a reliable RAID setup than to have 480mb/s and an > > external drive that may overheat in its enclosure and die? > > My 2.5 inch external case/drive does a decent job of conductive cooling > to the exterior from which natural convection is quite adequate. I'd > guess that the same attention to cooling exists for larger cases. I was > interested in the simplicity and portability of my 2.5 inch external > drive when my laptop was sick and I needed to access data through a > desktop at work. 60Gb that fits a shirt pocket is nice! Speed with USB > 2.0 "ain't bad" (this laptop drive is kinda slow anyway), and I can > tolerate the speed with USB 1.1 before resorting to juggling CDs, etc. > > > Chuck > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070426/5cfa6b5c/attachment.htm