[xaos01]

My current setup is listed in my sig. I bought a dual-proc G5 simply because it ran MacOS and had a PCI-X slot. Got it off ebay for $500 bucks. In that PCI-X slot I put a 4-Port eSATA Host Adapter with Port Multiplier Compatibility. Hanging off 2 of the ports are Five-Bay, Hot-Swap, External, SATA Port Multiplier Enclosures. Two ports are unused. I have 9 1TB Caviar Blacks, and 1 2TB Caviar Green all as separate drives, no RAID. The 2TB green is sketchy. I suppose it could be a bad drive, every once in a while, some file I put there bit-rots and becomes unplayable and locks up the Finder when it tries to create a thumb for it. I personally think that I was prolly writing to it too fast or something and the data was laid down wrong to begin with. I have a 2TB Black from NewEgg ready to go when I figure out what to do.

I either need to start swapping out 1TBs with 2TBs or get another chassis to continue collecting.

Nothing is redundant. It's bugged me since day 1, and now that I have like 1500 full rips, it _really_ bugs me. RAID never did everything I wanted. So I was looking around and thinking maybe I would build a Solaris ZFS box when I stumbled on unRAID. It looks like it would be _perfect_ for me.

So I think Im going to go that route and sell my 2 Chassis' and the card on eBay. It will be nice to have 3 boxes down to 1 with some level of fault tolerance. From the site fora, it appears that AFP is working or in the works.

Got a question about unRAID tho'.

How in the frak can I have unlimited media drives and a single parity drive and still survive a single drive failure? I just don't get it. Seems like some kinda' pocket-universe/bag-of-holding thing goin' on...