Would you compare the MTBF (mean time between failures) for both for us, please. -----Original Message----- From: bioclusters-bounces+dangulo=cti.depaul.edu at bioinformatics.org on behalf of Chris Dagdigian Sent: Wed 1/17/2007 5:49 PM To: HPC in Bioinformatics Subject: Re: [Bioclusters] Urgent advice on RAID design requested Reliable? With a single power supply? That may be a good home NAS box or perhaps scratch space for a production server but I'd certainly not list it in the "extremely reliable" category. I can't be sure but I think the $499 price listed in your URL does not include any actual SATA drives. Other online sites list this device (populated 2TB raw) for $1200. For that kind of money I'd be looking at Infrant instead of Lacie. My $.02 -Chris On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Angulo, David wrote: > I disagree with you. Look at http://www.bestbuybusiness.com/bbfb/ > en/US/adirect/bestbuy? > cmd=catProductDetail&productID=BB10725830&operation=showDetails > This is RAID, so the mean time between failure will be extremely > large. This is extremely reliable. _______________________________________________ Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters