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YellowMachine/Raid Feedback

NN8926212
Apparently YellowMachine did something with Phase during their Phase One Tour and I am actually going to be buying at least a 2TB Raid that is capable of handling a Raid 5 and was curious how these are. I am not spending the money on an X Raid...although if money was no issue that is what I would buy...but would like to know if any others are using a quality Raid that they have feedback on or have personal experience with YellowMachine. This is the first time I actually heard of them...so. Thanks.
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  • abalian
    It looks like you'll need a PC to setup this storage device:
    http://www.yellowmachine.com/products/system.htm

    I wonder if it has an ADMIN function for MAC OS.

    Alan
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  • NN8878311
    I haven't tried that one, but i bought a Raid-5 solution from Infrant, a Ready-NAS. It works as a charm! The best thing i've got for my computer! I have a 4 x 400gb which gives me 1.2 TB of \"safe\" storage ...



    //Kristofer
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  • Stephen11
    Hi Kris,

    Does this \"Infrant\" solution work with mac osx?

    If so I'd be very interested in getting one of thses units as I was about to buy a G-raid or a Buffalo Terrastation....

    Thanks

    Steve
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  • paul schefz
    the xnas works perfectly with mac osX..i have had mine for almost a year now, works great, faster then expected and even comes with a media server built in ( for streaming music...) unbeatable for the price....i do have other, faster raids, but the infrant solutions are hard to beat overall for price/performance...
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  • NN8878311
    Yep, just as pschefz just said, it works just perfect with MacOSX. Couldn't be more happy ...

    //Kris
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  • Stephen11
    Many thanks for the advice, Just ordered a NV-2tb and will await it's arrival.

    Kind regards

    Steve
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  • Wellington Lee
    Hi,

    Not to be the negative guy in the room, but you do realize that RAID 5 even with a spare drive ready to rebuild is not a backup. With any kind of RAID system that splits up the information onto multiple drives, normal methods of drive recovery don't work, because you still have to reassemble all the recovered data from all the drives that make up the RAID.

    That being said, RAID 5 is a safer way to maintain your hot files (one's that are current and need immedate access) than on single drives.

    But you should still look at a RAID 5 as a single drive, and since it's a single copy- you should back it up.

    Yes, the chances of two drives failing at the same time are fairly small, but it is not impossible. With RAID 5, if more than one drive goes down, there is not enough parity information on the remaining drives to rebuild both bad drives. And if that happens, you lose all the information from your RAID, which is probably at least 1TB of photos!

    Just my 2¢

    -catfell
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  • NN8926212
    So is the NAS NV 2TB the way to go for something like this? It is not yellow and that is a start 😉 Anyway, let me know how they are working out for you and where is a good place online to order them from. Thanks.
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  • Stephen11
    [quote="atort13" wrote:
    So is the NAS NV 2TB the way to go for something like this? It is not yellow and that is a start 😉 Anyway, let me know how they are working out for you and where is a good place online to order them from. Thanks.


    Still awaiting delivery, but will let you know as soon as it's settled in.....
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