Quote Originally Posted by Robotbeat
I've had many "system corrupted" errors, but have never lost data on the open-e systems. It is incredibly annoying that it happens (and open-e probably should switch to a filesystem like JFFS2 which is designed to be used on flash), but you just swap out the module or boot from a CD and your data is still there, safe and sound.

There's also the option of installing open-e dss (atlanta i.e. build 3511 or later) on any hard disk or RAID volume slice. I actually still like the ability to easily swap out modules, even though the stupid things keep failing. I've been looking at some USB thumb drives that use both wear-leveling and single-level cells. They're about $30 online.

I'm working at the small business level and I could not put that kind of problems at my customers sites , even with UPS if for any reason the battery fail I will receive alot of calls just for a small power lost and this is not an option , I want to use commercial product exactly to prevent this , I have alot of Macintosh customers so the AFP part is really a thing that I need and the transition from OSX 10.4 to 10.5 stopped me from using it because of some incompatibility with netatalk used with Open-E , I tried to help the engineer at Open-E without success ( they don't care ), I don't need Open-E to made that kind of functionnality , put linux Debian 5.0 and you will have exactly the same things after some hours of config and you will have access to your system config file , and when the things will be broken no more waiting from support@open-e.com. This product just don't catch the whole thing of OpenSource and this is why Openfiler is probably an inferior product that create more interest , because when someting is broken you could repair it yourself and discuss with others about it . When you use OpenSource software to create commercial one you need to give the software and then you could sell the support to get it configured correctly , remembered the Open-E Free version saga? A dead horse