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<blockquote data-quote="Dubyahjay" data-source="post: 224461" data-attributes="member: 57468">I would definitely loose flexible power management on the CPU, but the drives are another story. Since unRaid doesnt stripe the drives, all but the accessed drive can be spun down. As long as my directory structure is sound (ie i dont have movies spanning multiple drives) the power usage should be extremely low. Plus I can underclock through the bios if need be. True that it is not as feature rich as some of the other linux/windows alternatives but it is very light weight (which means less to break!) and has the main feature that I am looking for, filesharing.I have been researching storage for quite a while now. It is the only thing that has kept me from ripping all of my dvds and getting into HD. I wanted cheap expandability, stability and GigEthernet. This has all of those covered. In fact, the more drives I add, the less per GB the cost is. Fantastic!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dubyahjay, post: 224461, member: 57468"] I would definitely loose flexible power management on the CPU, but the drives are another story. Since unRaid doesnt stripe the drives, all but the accessed drive can be spun down. As long as my directory structure is sound (ie i dont have movies spanning multiple drives) the power usage should be extremely low. Plus I can underclock through the bios if need be. True that it is not as feature rich as some of the other linux/windows alternatives but it is very light weight (which means less to break!) and has the main feature that I am looking for, filesharing. I have been researching storage for quite a while now. It is the only thing that has kept me from ripping all of my dvds and getting into HD. I wanted cheap expandability, stability and GigEthernet. This has all of those covered. In fact, the more drives I add, the less per GB the cost is. Fantastic! [/QUOTE]

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