<<Then my sysadmin suggested that I simply buy a cheap server box and stuff
it full of hard drives. he would rig it so that it was a mirrored RAID and
appear on the network to be one giganto network drive. Now, I store
EVERYTHING I've ever done in that RAID. That's been good for the past five
years or so.
However...
I'm starting to run out of room again.
So, after the next few paychecks, I'm going to buy up 4 or 6 (always in
pairs for a RAID) 250+G drives and hand the whole box over to him. He'll
drain all the data off the RAID to his network, replace all the tiny drives
with the 250+G drives (giving me more than a terabyte of mirrored storage),
and reload my data onto the RAID. That still seems the cheapest way to
store all that data, yet keep it somewhat accessible.>>
---Edward this is exactly what I've been doing for quite a while, though in
a slightly smaller scale. I was ready to throw out a perfectly good dual
processor P3 mainboard when I realized it would make a perfect file storage
server. It sits next to me, holding a hodge-podge of used drives, but like
you I am about to move up to some better quality disks as well.
I am not so faithful to the RAID concept however. I have had too many RAID
arrays unmount or "break" on me, so I stick with a simple stack of drives
and that's it.
Nothing I store is ever over 100 GB in one chunk so it works out fine.
JeffH
Ch.S.
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