On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 05:15:32PM -0600, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" > Subject: Re: Seeking Advice From Computer Gurus > > > > Through a USB port? Yuck. Performance will be sucky. You want a > > FireWire 400 or 800 port, or a fast SCSI interface. > > I'm thinking of the Data Robotics unit for external storage, not as a working > drive. I have five > drives in my computer, and will be adding a sixth at some point, removing a > Gigabyte I-Ram to > make room for it. My final drive configuration will be 2 striped pairs and > one mirrored drive in > the computer. This will give me pretty much all the drive performance I need, > but I like the > idea of an external array for redundant data storage. > I'm thinking that for this purpose, a USB interface will be fine, though > obviously an eSata or > Firewire would be better. > > William Robb
What about a Network Attached Storage system? I'm seriously considering a 2TB array (1.5TB RAID 5) for external image storage. That can be hooked up with GB ethernet, although I'll probably end up using the 100MB connection to my wireless router. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
