On 17/11/2012 4:33 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
There's a discussion in progress on my facebook page that I'm sure several on
this list will find interesting. In short, I'm looking for a relatively
inexpensive way to come up with roughly 8TB of storage, in a single box, for my
raw photo files, rather than my current practice of just adding on external
drives as I go.
https://www.facebook.com/ellarsee/posts/10151357803404673
In practical use, I could probably get by with just using a smaller external
drive for my current work, and only fire up the bigger box when I want to
access stuff that has been archived (how cheap are SSD boot/system disks these
days?).
There are a variety of interesting suggestions:
drobo, $300 for last generation, $800 for current, plus drives
FreeNAS
Greyhole
OpenIndiana
Some links of interest
http://www.drobo.com/
http://www.freenas.org/
http://www.greyhole.net/
http://openindiana.org/
http://illumos.org
http://zfsonlinux.org/
http://www.frys.com/product/7293213?site=sa:adpages%20page:P2_FRI%20date:081611
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822240010&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-NA-_-NA
http://www.frys.com/product/7019751?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
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Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
FWIW, I've been using a first generation Drobo pretty much since they
became available. Other than being really, really slow (I think it is
USB 1), it's been a perfectly reliable performer. Right now I have 3x2T
drives in it, as I had out grown the 750GB drives that I put in originally.
Replacing the drives was dead easy, I added a new drive to it, waited
for it to do whatever it was doing, then took a drive out and put a new
one in, waited for it to do it's thing, and repeated until I had
exchanged the drives. At some point I'll replace the one I have with a
faster unit, but at the moment, I'm happy enough with the thing.
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William Robb
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