4Tb in a standard PC case is quite do-able these days, just stripe four 1Tb drives, or use 5 of them would give you raid 5.
A decent sized standard PC case would give you space for 5 or six drives. My server case I got from Edge ages ago has space for 10 drives and two power supplies. As for cost, cheap if you want cheap. What level of performance do you want? If it's just for archival or file and print storage for a small number of users SATA would fine, and quite cheap. Probably get it onto the network as a NAS box for around the $2500 mark. If it's for a network of 500 users and will have transactional data on it, be prepared to spend $15-30k. :-). Cheers, Me. On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 22:21 +1300, Don Gould wrote: > What do people recommend for setting up 4 to 8 TB of disk space? > > I want to be able to grow it as I need more space. > > I want to be able to take out old disks and put in bigger ones. > > Can anyone recommend a chassis to hold the disks that doesn't cost $1000 > just for the box? > > What disks does one use these days ESATA? > > Cheers Don > >
