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Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives

November 9, 2009
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Chris Jacob over at Gizmodo wrote an interesting article about building your own Network Attached Storage device.
A while ago I was considering putting low-powered 5400 RPM drives into a NAS. I was worried about performance, but Tom’s Hardware shows us that drive speed isn’t the bottleneck, and how slower drives can even beat faster ones.The [...]

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