I went with Wi-fi this time and don't regret it.

Yeah, the Wifi is fine.

Yeah. I'm feeling ambivalent about it.

I think I'll try for the RAID5. It's pretty goofy that I'm all, oh, well, I can lose a terabyte. But I'm doubling my space, so maybe I should just do it and be happy with that.

Now the next question is how. Probably best to move it all off, reformat & set up the new software, and then move it back on. But if I was going through all that, then I might as well scrub the current backups for duplicates. The reason it filled to begin with was that I just kept backing up additional laptops, even though I'd pull the archival files for use in the next one, so those are on the NAS multiple times.

But that's a bigger project than I was hoping to do. But it's probably best to just do it, at this point, and start clean.

If you're looking to save a little money, you can always get the version that has the ads. If you absolutely hate them, you can pay $20 at any time and Amazon will remove the ads (pretty much instantly).

The ads aren't all that bad. They're at the bottom of the main screen and they're your screensaver, but since they don't bother you when you're actually reading, I never felt the urge to pay to get rid of them.

Your other decision is between 3G (more expensive) or Wi-fi. I had 3G on my last Kindle and rarely used it. So I went with Wi-fi this time and don't regret it.

My first Touch only had Wi-fi, and my sister bought me one with 3G to replace it when it was stolen (it was actually cheaper since Target was getting rid of them before the Paperwhite was announced), and I've really only used it once and that was just so I could use it. Doesn't really seem worth the extra cost, which is fairly significant, I think.

One of my co-workers, whose new job seems to be stuffing my flash drives full of purloined video (good lord, I just remembered he used to run a porn BBS...I can't even finish that thought...) showed me the 8 or so TB he brings to work every single day--of personal data. Which, hey, full runs of Red Dwarf and Archer coming my way, as well as random documentaries, but...whose leisure time needs that much portable (HEAVY) storage?

I run a Drobo raid for my archives. It's at around 15 TB at the moment if my memory is correct. I am hopeful that by the time I need to add more space to it SATA mechanisms are larger than the current max of 4 TB. I believe I have all five bays in the Drobo populated with 4 TB drives at the moment.

Having 3G on the Kindle is a life-saver when you're out of wifi range and finish your book and need to buy the next one in the series RIGHT NOW.

(Disclaimer, no actual lives have been saved by use of this feature, but several hours of boredom were successfully averted.)

Wen I had my NAS replaced with something less fucked up, I decided to go with RAID 1 instead of 0. I still feel like I'm missing a step in being safe, but at least I'm safer.

However, obviously I have half the storage I'd planned for.

And I don't like its performance.

ND--you have the same one. Do you have a visible latency in OSX, especially when it comes to folders with 100s of items in it? It's frustrating--and it doesn't always have to be large amounts. Sometimes I have to go away and leave Finder or whatever, instead of the watched pot browsing.

Also, I've never worked out how to get to most of the shares without navigating the long way--OS X volume, to shares, and then on, rather than having it display under Shared.

Man...I used to be able to follow this stuff. Ah, well. Price of progress.

My NAS has been making a disturbing sound lately. I can probably just replace the fan, but it gives me an excuse to get a new one. My current one is slow. It was dirt cheap but I kinda got what I paid for.

RAID 1 is pretty safe and simple, RAID 0 is kinda scary but fast. I think the only thing you're missing is offsite storage. There's RAID 10 which is two RAID 1 arrays combined in a RAID 0 array to get the benefits of both. Course if you have four drives you could use RAID 5, but I suspect that would lower performance quite a bit from RAID 10.

I can use RAID 5 with only three drives, right?

It's funny because I just bought the extra one, but it's pretty clear that my storage needs are about to expand pretty exponentially.

I'm now thinking about using the 3TB as a normal standalone, and changing out my NAS entirely.