nordlead on 22 October 2009
I had raid 0 before and one of the drives failed, I'd rather go with raid 5 or 0+1 if I wanted more speed, but I don't think I need extra speed. I think if I don't go raid 1, I'll go with a backup drive that I manually run to save energy.
The barebones system seems a little expensive to me. I can probably buy all the same parts and put it together myself for $50 less. Also, it doesn't look like it comes with built in graphics, so I'd have to spend more for that. Unless I'm missing something about the box that gives it more value.
Does anyone have experience with linux based media servers, or should I go with XP?
