> -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 2:49 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Ah... that feels better > > How much did it cost?
I got the Infrant ReadyNAS 600 from NewEgg.com and four 400 GB Seagate drives. $600 for the NAS and $800 for the drives (I've been saving for this for a long while...) ;^) (I didn't think I'd be able to get it - the fund I had set aside for it was re-earmarked for a car for me after the move in June. But my mother-in-law gifted me her old car so I'm set on that count.) The unit was simple to set up (although they've a newer unit that has truly hot-swap drive accessibility - this one has to have the cover removed to get at the drives). I popped the drives in and it automatically started working - for a looooong time. ;^) About 30 minutes to initialize the drives for the first time and then four hours to synchronize the RAID 5 array. With the four drives I ended up with about 1100 Gig of storage. It then took... well, about four hours to transfer everything over from two machines and a couple of external drives. I really this box however - it's Linux Based and several companies are writing extensions for it. It already support four different media server standard and several more are coming (including a "Twonkymedia" server which is supposedly compatible with the XBox 360). Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:195799 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
