defected07

OK, so it's its own implementation of RAID. I don't want to derail this thread more than I have, but if a drive fails, and I put a new one in, it will rebuild what was temporarily lost, right?

This looks PERFECT for my needs... Now to read up on unRAID, and see how I want this configured. Never had a RAID system before, but for the time being, can I mix and match drive manufacturers, and sizes with RAID 5 or 6? Not familiar with the concept of a separate cache drive, either. But this all looks very cool! My purpose will be a media server--nothing else. Samba, possibly FTP software so I don't need to use my laptop to do the transfers. Not sure if I will integrate my TimeMachine into this, but may want to have a redundant drive for my 1TB external LaCie which has music, documents, setup files, etc..