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As an aside, this type of topic is why I chose Drobo for my NAS solution. I definitely have enough surplus computer equipment lying around where I could easily scrap together a NAS running unRAID or FreeNAS, but at the end of the day, I chose the Drobo because all I had to do was literally pop in the drives, install the Drobo software, set up a share and GO! As part of the "purchase justification" to the wife, I calculated my personal salary rate times the amount of time necessary to get a DIY solution up and running, then I added to that the current US mileage reimbursement rate times the distance to the local computer store, with that value being multiplied by the number of trips to the local computer store. There was an environmental fee applied to all of the "old" parts that were replaced by "new" parts on the second trip to the computer store which likely still did not solve the problem fully. Finally, there is the consulting fee I have to now pay my IT friend who drinks really expensive vodka to finally come over and get all of this working for me. So, in the end, it was much cheaper for me to buy the Drobo

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