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Originally Posted by MikeVega
I use a Netgear Storage Central Network Hard Drive Enclosure. it holds two drives and you just add it to the network and all PC's can connect to it. It was $99 and I have two 750Gb Drives in it. I keep some important stuff on it along with content so it allows you to make them one big drive or you can use one for storage and one to be a mirror of the other .. anytime you add or remove anything it mirrors the drive. If one goes bad i just swap it out and it will mirror off the other. it does cut the space in half but i won't lose anything.
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I was reading up on this product the other day and the initial reaction wasn't favourable... apart from the proprietary file system and Windows-only driver requirement it DOESN'T offer seamless recovery when a drive fails. You need to copy the data off the device, replace the drive, format, then copy it back over. There were also complaints that the read/write time was super slow due to Netgear's designers using an underpowered CPU (the tech guy replying compared it with a 486 class CPU)
If I knew more about embedded Linux I'd probably pick one up just to have a hack and turn it into a genuine SMB server with a standard mirror filesystem... but I don't.
