Larry, you could go my route. Take a relatively weak CPU, 1-2 GB of RAM,
minimal motherboard with everything on board, hardware RAID (here I
think the good card is important) and a big box where you can stuff many
HDDs. Set up a Linux and put inside HDDs according to your taste and
preference.
Externally you could either go buy 1GB ethernet card (like I did) or use
some other interface such as eSATA.
I think it may suit your needs well.
On 11/18/2012 12:33 AM, 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when I want to access stuff that has been archived (how cheap are SSD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
-- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
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