My platoon and I are going to Iraq and we need a couple terrabytes of disk space for movies to keep us entertained while we're over there. The current plan is to get four 1TB drives (because it's cheaper than getting one 4TB or 2 2TB drives), and they're thinking about getting external USB drives. They're getting some kind of intermediary hardware so movies saved on the HD can be played on a television, and it requires a USB port. The current plan is to get drives that are USB powered but I question how well that's going to work.
The only other constraints are that the total cost for the whole setup has to be $3,000 or less, and of course that it shouldn't fail before we leave the country (about one year) even when exposed to dust, sand, and high temperatures. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks, Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
