Diana Eichert wrote:
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Alexander Hall wrote:
Hi all!
I've been looking around for the Plextor PX-EH{16,25,40}'s lately and
discovered that they seem to be on the way out, if available at all.
At least on the Swedish sites.
Is there any new OpenBSD compatible landisk-like hardware available,
other than that listed on landisk.html?
(does not have to be restricted to OpenBSD/landisk, though)
/Alexander
Plextor PX-EH h/w has been and is still readily available in the US,
though it has been heavily discounted recently at certain online
retailers.
diana
That scares me a little, since if there will be no hardware available, I
guess the development of obsd/landisk will eventually come to an end.
Well, thinking of it, I guess the sh4 could have other uses than serving
landisk's.
Anyway, you don't happen to know any retailers that ship world-wide (or
at least Sweden-wide), with decent shipping costs? I looked around a bit
and it seems to me that most of them are only targeting the US market.
Of course, I may be totally blind.
While at the subject, are the Plextor's really as useless for serving
files as sometimes stated? The two drives I'm aiming to buy are supposed
to form a geographically separated, rsync'd, storage pair. Mainly for
documents, i.e. no streaming video or so. Samba and nfs comes to mind,
but really not much more. I'd estimate at most two simultaneous users
but probably less. :-)
Is the bottleneck a slow processor, the hard drive, lousy I/O or
something else?
Thanks,
/Alexander
