[Pc_Support] Re: Synology DS-106 w/FTPS (explicit) access

[Damien McKenna]

Jason Boxman wrote:
>> I'm also looking at the Thecus N2050 series which are eSATA drives with built-in RAID 0 and 1, those would be pretty darn wonderful for easy & reliable external expansion on miniature systems (think: Mac Mini).
>>     
> Interesting.

Should be more reliable than many other options, and a good deal faster.

> At work we just USB2 two external enclosures and RAID 1 that on 
> the Mac Minis.  Seems to work well enough.
>   

Hitting the SATA directly will give a tremendous speed boost, the
onboard RAID will be faster than CPU & system I/O-driven RAID, and be
more reliable than Firewire.  I've seen lots of comments of
Firewire-based RAID systems dying because one drive gets unplugged,
etc.  It just makes me nervous.

>> Too bad they don't have plain-jane SSH & SFTP, would have been better
>> IMHO.  Ah well, maybe in a ROM upgrade..
>>     
> Or WebDAV...
>   
That too, it should be an easy add-on for the (presumed) onboard Apache.

Now if only Apple would do something like that. <dream>

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