Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

this is just a scoblefact not actual gospel so needs confirmation.
are NAS boxes running some kind of internal software (even if not in raid configuration) that means if the box dies you can't just put the drives in an enclosure and start using them?
if this is the case i would rather go down the JBOD route and have a 2 bay enclosure (usb for cheapness/ sata FW800 for speed) and let something like chronosync take care of making the back-ups and just put the drives off-site when full.

anyone with greater knowledge able to confirm this is the case? or not?

We're getting into some serious stuff now with JBOD.

if a drive is configured for NAS, then you wouldn't just be able to stick it in a USB caddy. It would be an SMB based file system, which you would have to tap into your MAC when addressing the IP over the network.