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<blockquote data-quote="poopgiggle" data-source="post: 1334104" data-attributes="member: 6406">Still have a far higher $$$$/GB ratio than traditional drives.OP, here&#039;s an explanation of the terms we keep using:RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. It means tying two or more drives together to improve reliability, throughput, or both. The two you&#039;re going to be interested in are RAID 1, which is where half the disks mirror the other half (example: if you have two disks in a RAID 1, they both contain the same data. If you lose one, just put in a new disk and the old one copies to the new one.), and RAID 5, where you have 3 or more disks, and if you lose one then its replacement can be repopulated from the other disks (but if you lose more than one, you&#039;ve lost data). There are other RAID levels but they&#039;re not really suited for your purposes.NAS - Network Attached Storage. It&#039;s a file system that you connect to over a network. As far as this thread is concerned, &quot;NAS enclosure&quot; just means an enclosure that holds many drives and manages them in a RAID. There are enclosures like this that attach using Ethernet, USB, etc. Some of them might not technically qualify as a &quot;NAS&quot; but whatever.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="poopgiggle, post: 1334104, member: 6406"] Still have a far higher $$$$/GB ratio than traditional drives. OP, here's an explanation of the terms we keep using: RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. It means tying two or more drives together to improve reliability, throughput, or both. The two you're going to be interested in are RAID 1, which is where half the disks mirror the other half (example: if you have two disks in a RAID 1, they both contain the same data. If you lose one, just put in a new disk and the old one copies to the new one.), and RAID 5, where you have 3 or more disks, and if you lose one then its replacement can be repopulated from the other disks (but if you lose more than one, you've lost data). There are other RAID levels but they're not really suited for your purposes. NAS - Network Attached Storage. It's a file system that you connect to over a network. As far as this thread is concerned, "NAS enclosure" just means an enclosure that holds many drives and manages them in a RAID. There are enclosures like this that attach using Ethernet, USB, etc. Some of them might not technically qualify as a "NAS" but whatever. [/QUOTE]

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