What's sad is that whole machine can now be replaced by 2 1TB mirrored HDs.
Oh well :) On Dec 12, 2007 10:44 AM, DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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Of course now the drives are outdated and I've filled up the space.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 > > -- Brian Weeden
