[s-cars] NAC: hard drive crash

[Taka Mizutani]

If you're worried about hard drive quality going down, I would recommend not
using "consumer" grade hard drives at all.

Seagate Barracuda ES, Western Digital RE, Maxtor Maxline are
enterprise-class
drives, have 5-yr. warranties and typically are rated for 1M hrs. MTBF.

Interestingly enough, WD Raptors are also enterprise-class, so if you're
running
separate OS and data drives, running a Raptor for your OS isn't a bad idea.

I have yet to implement this myself, but eventually, a 150GB Raptor for
OS/Apps and
RAID5 (or 6) for storage, backup to a NAS box or PC setup for just storage.

Anyone been playing around w/ Windows Home Server? It's in beta right now,
couldn't
get a copy myself, intriguing concept as I have a spare box and would love
to set it up
as a dedicated storage server.

Since nearly everyone has a router even at home these days, IMHO NAS is much
better
than a USB external- USB externals are dog-slow. It reminds me of the days
when I was
copying files between floppies, considering how slowly the dialog box moves.
My RAID array
is practically instantaneous in contrast (moves files at a ridiculous speed,
but I have a HW
controller).

Taka