<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chuck Cole</b> <<a href="mailto:cncole@earthlink.net">cncole@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: Benjamin Gramlich [mailto:<a href="mailto:benjamin.gramlich@gmail.com">benjamin.gramlich@gmail.com</a>]<br>> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:51 PM<br>><br>>
<br>> I, too, have been looking at setting up and NAS because I've<br>> heard that<br>> external HDDs have a high failure rate. Wouldn't the tradeoff in speed<br>> be worth it for reliability of an NAS?
<br><br>Let others address this. I don't have enough knowledge here.</blockquote><div><br>With the NSLU2 NAS unit you use external drives (USB) - so it really depends on the enclosure. These enclosures run really cool ->
<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145162">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145162</a><br>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).
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> In other words, is it better to<br>> have 100mb/s and a reliable RAID setup than to have 480mb/s and an
<br>> external drive that may overheat in its enclosure and die?<br><br>My 2.5 inch external case/drive does a decent job of conductive cooling<br>to the exterior from which natural convection is quite adequate. I'd
<br>guess that the same attention to cooling exists for larger cases. I was<br>interested in the simplicity and portability of my 2.5 inch external<br>drive when my laptop was sick and I needed to access data through a<br>
desktop at work. 60Gb that fits a shirt pocket is nice! Speed with USB<br>2.0 "ain't bad" (this laptop drive is kinda slow anyway), and I can<br>tolerate the speed with USB 1.1 before resorting to juggling CDs, etc.
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