I keep thinking about buying one of these boxes that have RAID-5 support with at least a Terabyte of storage. With my video, music and photo collections, and various problems with hard drives, I’d like the extra security of a RAID box.

The names I’ve come across so far that are ‘affordable’ are Buffalo Technology TeraStation

Infrant NAS and Newisys NA-1400.

They’re all around $1000 for the box, and then you have to add hard-drives. Not cheap, but RAID-5 for important data is well worth it. How much is it worth to you to ensure your photos are safe?

I haven’t made a decision on any of these, and I notice that Buffalo now has some PRO versions too. Previous comparisons of Buffalo and Infrant had Infrant on top, but I’ll have to see if I can find a review using the new Buffalo Pro versions to see how they stack up.