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On Feb 11, 2008, at 9:18 PM, Nicholas Mistry wrote: > For the past couple years I have been constantly researching for a > way to create an inexpensive backup server that gives at least 1TB > in full RAID 1 redundancy while keeping $/GB as low as possible. I > am targeting this deployment for something that i would use in a > home or small business where the users could help themselves to > restoring files (which backuppc does well) and could assist with > offsite rotations by using additional external USB drives. I have > tried this w/ other low power small form factor machines but in the > past i found that they did not have enough driver support or bus > speed to keep up at an acceptable rate. I just recently did this, for my own home network and then for a couple of others. I came out just a little under $700 for 1.5 TB of RAID 5 storage. I wrote up a little bit on slashdot: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=367261&cid=21435931 I used a amd64 board with built on gigabit LAN, 1 GB RAM, and 4x500GB WD Caviars. I think buck for byte, the 500's were more efficient than the 1TB ones, I'm not sure about now. I tested RAID5 and RAID 1, and thought the slight speed hit of raid 5 was ok given the extra storage allowed. It's already saved me twice from catastrophic failures. David Morton Maia Mailguard http://www.maiamailguard.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHtK7DUy30ODPkzl0RAmWYAJ0Sy77803gHRjZ4TkKEdWfkybMa0gCfdCRN OAgkwwDQAylm3GV08gep1k8= =IduN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
