Brian, Yes, I recall when you built this tour 'd force. Really enjoyed the banter as it came to pass. I think that this would be a bit of overkill for what I plan to do. Heck, I really have a total for ~525GB of OS&Data on all of my machines. I do not know do music/video storage. I'm gonna try NASLite with jbods. I am going to check the link for pricing. That $150 for the caviar 750 is attractive. All I have here locally are 160's 200's. I now really wish I had a 'going out of business' CompUSA around! Best, Duncan
At 07:11 12/12/2007 -0500, you wrote:
About 18 months ago I built a RAID 5 array from 6 Seagate Barracuda 250GB drives and an LSI MegaRAID 150-6 controller that I use in my HTPC. Been working great (knock on wood). Of course now the drives are outdated and I've filled up the space. So I was looking into building a bigger array and migrating over. 1 TB drives are nice but you pay quite a price premium over 500GB and 750GB. Anand, Ars, and a few others have been recommending the WD Caviar 750GB drive in all of their holiday guides for price and speed (about $150). http://arstechnica.com/guides/buyer/2007-holiday-upgrade-guide.ars/4 On Dec 11, 2007 7:57 PM, DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ready to build my NAS. The m/b is a very old Abit BX6 r2.0 with an Intel > P2-450. And I want it to run headless; like a humming box (appliance) in > the corner! I suspect this puts SATA drives out of class ATM, unless I try > some PATA/SATA adapters. This is possible; but was really planning to use > PATA drives due to the m/b's age. > > The OS will be some flavor of the current NASLite series. Can not decide > which version to buy ATM. > > Looking for opinions and/or user experience with the crop of >100GB hard > drives. The plan is to try 4x 500GB drives. 2 hot, 2 as hot spares. > > Opinions welcome. > Best, > Duncan > > -- Brian Weeden
