On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:12 PM, David Morton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > 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
David, I took a look at your post on slashdot, but did not see what motherboard and case you used. Would you mind sharing these details.. Thanks -N ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
