--- Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/1/07, Vikram Ranade
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 750 GB drives cost 11k each at Nehru Place.
> >
> > we've just bought a bunch of them for storage.
>
> bunch of 750GB HDD for home storage.
> gulp!
> i agree with kishore, you gotta give a talk at
> freed.in "Raiding the
> kitchen: what's cooking in terabytes at home."
>
> 01. seems like everyone's recommending going the
> hard-disks way, where
> the hard-disk *is* the removable media. we live in
> interesting times.
> am confused on whether i should go raid0, 1, or 5.
> refreshed my
> theory-fundas off wikipedia here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
>
> but what do you guys recommend?
>
For home use RAID 1 is enough. Nothing complicated.
remember the KISS principle.
> 02. surprisingly, no one is recommending
> tape-archive. but makes sense too.
>
> 03. the amazon S3 idea is a winner on its own merit.
> but will have to
> psychologically prepare myself: my home personal
> data, totalling
> several gigabytes, is in a digital godown several
> hundred miles away,
> accessible from anywhere with a click, for which i
> have to pay rent
> every month in US dollars.
> now we live in even more interesting times.
>
> 04. even off-line archive on hardisks is being
> recommended. however, i
> just had a nasty clickety-click on a 3-week old
> hardisk i was still
> filling to the brim with data.
>
Well with the invent of usb casing I count HDD as
removable media.
As for clicking sound, this could be a problem with
other hardware. I remember that one of my HDD refused
to work on your machine and same clicking sound could
be heard. But guess what, same harddrive is still
working as a main data store on my machine(with
reformatting or anything). And yes, I had also tried
connecting my usb2.0 mini HDD and it did not work,
where as it immediately worked on your brother's
machine and incidentally that HDD is still doing its
job . So the problem could be in other hardware
instead of HDD.
> 05. what i find unusual is no one is recommending
> HD-DVD or blueray?
> is it out and available in india? at what prices?
> what is the actual
> storage available on those new shiny platters?
>
Well storage space is required for HD-DVD or Cds or
dvds. One HDD can replace loads of these platters.
> 06. last week i discovered some companies have
> started shipping a
> Network-Attached-Storage with built-in wi-fi. i
> dunno if this is
> available in india, and at what price. what do you
> guys think?
>
> incidentally, those keen to check out what made me
> stumble to this
> wifi-NAS, click here:
> www.sonos.com and you'll understand why people would
> need a wifi-NAS
> at home. great link for ankur rohtagi. ;-)
>
> wouldn't a wifi-NAS make sense? i know this is a
> dumb question, but
> hey! i'm dumb! would a NAS be as reliable as a RAID5
> array,
> performance, price, etc...?
And what makes you think NAS box wont have RAID ?
For home use why not build a NAS box your self. All
you need is a PC with linux installed (no need to
install gui, normal install with ssh will do, go for
RAID if you are paranoid about data redundancy).
Create one big data partition and make it available
for other machines via samba, simple :-)
Oh yes you can attach a wifi card instead of normal
lan and you have wifi NAS. No rocket science here :-)
regards
VK
Engineers normally have problem with every solution. If not they have a
solution in search of a problem.
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