"Fake" RAID?

[directhex]

It's basically gonna be a file server (got another PC for gaming etc), but I will use it for Usenet as well, which I like to use NewsLeecher for as it does everything in one click. If anyone knows a way of getting from NZB to extracted file in one click in Linux then please let me know

directhex@mortos:~$ apt-cache search nzb
hellanzb - Newzbin (nzb) & BinNews (bns) files downloader and post-processor
klibido - usenet binary grabber for KDE
libnzb-dev - An nzb based Usenet binary grabber (development files)
libnzb0c2a - An nzb based Usenet binary grabber (runtime library)
nzb - An nzb based Usenet binary grabber
python-yenc - yEnc encoding/decoding extension for Python

of the above, "nzb" and "klibido" are GUI apps

Anyone know what Adaptec's are like?

supported by the in-kernel "aacraid" driver, as of several years

I know all Windows drivers are closed source but the windows kernel changes once every 2 years... Linux gets an update every 2 weeks or so.

don't update every fortnight then. run a distribution which has a lengthy support cycle

[ta2]

directhex@mortos:~$ apt-cache search nzb
hellanzb - Newzbin (nzb) & BinNews (bns) files downloader and post-processor
klibido - usenet binary grabber for KDE
libnzb-dev - An nzb based Usenet binary grabber (development files)
libnzb0c2a - An nzb based Usenet binary grabber (runtime library)
nzb - An nzb based Usenet binary grabber
python-yenc - yEnc encoding/decoding extension for Python

of the above, "nzb" and "klibido" are GUI apps

By "NZB to extracted file" what I mean is:

NZB -> Broken RARs + PAR2 -> Fixed RARs -> tvepisode.mkv

[peterb]

If you went Linux, you could use the built in Linux Kernel RAID drivers. No need to worry about hardware card driver compatability, and with a machine of that spec, there will be negligible performance hit.

[ta2]

This is really meant to be a high performance file server, so software RAID is out of the question. I have narrowed it down to two possible cards I think:

Adaptec 5805
Areca ARC-1220

The Adaptec card seems to have much better specs, and is cheaper... but someone said that Areca's solution is "proper" hardware RAID (i.e. transparent)? I have seen this and this (see "1.02 drivers"), which make it seem otherwise though.

Would be nice if these websites explained what their products do better!

Thanks again

[Lourdes]

They are both hardware RAID cards.