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I've thus come to the conclusion that I can't afford a drive as small as
160gb, even if it's effectively free like this one! That's a 21st
century moment.
I've had the same thought. I have three drives now (original 80Gb and two 250's with a DVD for the fourth drive). I am considering replacing the 80 with a larger drive (I'm putting all my DVD's into mythtv).
Perhaps somebody should make a low priced external USB case that holds
4 EIDE drives on usb-2, just for video arrays. With video arrays you
really don't care a lot about the bandwidth limitations that would
give you, a video stream only needs about 20 megabits for ordinary play
and record, though more for commercial scan/transcode of course. Right
now such cases would cost a fair bit more than this drive.
I'd be very interested if anyone knows of something like this that would be fairly cheap. Everything I've seen is either 1 drive or is very expensive (NAS devices with hot swapping and such). Hubbing a bunch of USB drives together is certainly a possibility, and building a scaled down PC for network attached storage is another, but I'd really like a less expensive, more elegant solution (especially when I can get a USB external enclosure (single drive) for less than $40.
I'm assuming that a USB drive would look like any other USB device within Linux and that I couldn't do something like create an LVM volume with XFS like I do with my internal drives?
By the way, I previously did a quick thumbnail for a scaled down hard drive storage (a cheap PC) and ended up with the following:
$46 Antec mini tower case with 300 Watt P/S
$40 AMD Mobo with USB 2.0, Video, Audio, LAN (100Mb)
$52 AMD Athlon XP 1800+
$44 512Mb PC2700 memory
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$182 plus tax, shipping, etc. (just need to add the drives)
I didn't include a floppy, DVD, keyboard, monitor, or mouse, since once it's set up, I shouldn't need them and I can "borrow" any component I need for setup from one of my other machines.
My thought would be that a multi-drive cabinet would need to come in about the same or cheaper (anyone know if I'm missing anything blatant?). Of course, this still only gets me four drives unless I put in an additional EIDE controller or get into the SCSI world (which would increase the drive prices).
I figured I'd just wait until the holidays and pick up one of those post-Thanksgiving specials at BestBuy or CircuitCity and get roughly the same thing plus the DVD and a single HD for about the same price.
Comments?
Thanks,
phlepper
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -- Confucius
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