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Originally Posted by photon
Would hold 8TB with 4x2TB drives without any RAID.
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Originally Posted by Rathji
plug in one (or 2)of these external raid enclosures with a couple of these 3 TB drives in each, you can set those drives as RAID1 (or a couple more like RAID0 or JBOD that you wouldnt really want to use) with toggle switches, so it is VERY easy. |
I don't think it has to be a server so much (wouldn't need software to stream, etc unless I do in fact go with a networked solution). While setting up a PC with 4 drives would probably be the more robust option, I would then have to worry about compatibility between the mac that I use for daily use, whatever I use for a front end in the home theatre, and then the windows file server.
What's the advantage of RAID1 vs JBOD? Let's say I went with a dual or quad bay external enclosure, could I use JBOD to make it appear as one drive, and have a duplicate setup for a backup drive?