On Tue, December 13, 2005 11:03 am, Jason A Banta said:
>
> For home backups, there are plenty of alternatives out there. The
> prices have come way down in price as of recently also. For example,
> you can get a Buffalo TeraStation 1TB NAS HD-H1.0TGL/R5 Terabyte for
> under a thousand dollars now.
Nice, but, ummm... I think your definition of "home" budget is a bit different
from mine :-). I figure 4 250G drives at $90 each is $360 (less than that
with the rebate deal Josh found), plus about $40 for a controller card is $400
for 1T unformatted capacity. Put it all in one of the leftover cases I've
recycled out of the trash pile, and spend about $50 on an old motherboard, CPU
and memory on eBay, and I'd be good to go. I might even be able to rescue a
motherboard out of the trash pile as well, although I'm not sure what the real
math requirements are for RAID5. I keep reading "oh NOES you can't do RAID on
anything less than dual 3GHz CPUs!!!" but I'm running a RAID1 on a Duron 850
that never breaks a sweat. I'm aware that RAID5 is more compute intensive
than RAID1, but I'm not sure exactly how much more.
Anyway, just some ramblings from one of your resident computer packrats.
-- Jason Bleazard http://drazaelb.blogspot.com Burlington, Ontario his: '95 Dakota Sport 4x4, 3.9 V6, 5spd, Reg. Cab, white hers: '01 Dakota Sport 4x4, 4.7 V8, Auto, Quad Cab, black
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