hardware for home use large storage

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> I have my backup storage machine booted from USB stick (as read-only
> UFS) with 4x 1TB HDDs in RAIDZ. It is running one and half year
> without problem.

Yeah, I am booting off a 4Gb CF card with adapter (I didn't trust the 
BIOS enough for USB :)

I wouldn't use it for a remote system without redundancy but for a home 
setup a very lightly used flash device seems like an obvious (and cost 
effective) choice.

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