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What makes you nervous about RAID 0? If one of the disks dies you lose access to all your data, but if one of the disks in JBOD dies, won't it still be a hassle to figure out which data you lost and which you didn't?
Of course, depending on the speed of your network the speed gains of RAID 0 probably won't matter at all as the N part of NAS will be your data bottleneck, so in that case JBOD is really the same thing from your perspective and may be easier to maintain.
RAID 0 has more points of failure than JBOD. Pretty much all of my computer crashes have been hard drive failures, so I'd rather lose half my data than all of it. And I don't think I need much of a performance boost anyway.
Could you add one more 3 TB drive? Then you can do raid 5 or 6 and have all of your data survive the loss of any one drive.
Not in this enclosure, no. That's a whole different price point.
I'd pick raid 1 and live in the cramped confines of 3TB.
Yeah, I went with raid 1.
I'm still playing around at this point, but I am not sure I want to eat the disk for RAID1.I have 2+TB of storage here to be backed up already. There'd be no versioning!
Well, it's all play for now. I'll commit to something over the weekend.
Iomega is sending me a new cable. I can't imagine how the cable that I've been using all this time with no problems suddenly went bad, but I'll be glad if that fixes the problem.
If you go with raid 1 you could use a backup system that backups to zip file. That give you back the space you lose and since zip is non proprietary you can recover even if backup software is not available. Yeah, I know time machine really is better.
I'm just going with out of the box compression. I have no interest in a third party backup tool. I'm already going to have to work something out for the Debian box.