yeah, RAID1 is fine.  I just want to recover from failures, and it seems
like you can't trust inexpensive drives anymore.

the smallest drives out there are something like 60Gigs aren't they?
That's more than I need by probably more than 40G.  with that much space
I could partition the drives into 10G segments and use most of them in
some kind of staggered backup scheme.

here's what I'm looking at now...
mini-barebones: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16856150121
2 SATA seagate: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822148040
512M kingmax:   http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820156005
Sempron 2300+:  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819104209

with shipping it's just under $400

- Ben


On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 02:49:19PM -0700, James Washer wrote:
> $300 with RAID?? I'll ASSUME you are talking RAID-1 then.. is that correct?  
> How much "available" disk space will you require?
> 
>  - jim
> 
> On Wed, 18 May 2005 13:24:18 -0700
> Ben Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > inexpensive.  so...  SATA or IDE I guess.  I'm hoping to spend less than
> > $300.
> > 
> > the MB on my desktop machine has a hardware RAID controller built in.
> > maybe I should pull that board and upgrade my desktop...  hm.
> > 
> > - Ben
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:12:38PM -0700, James Washer wrote:
> > > SCSI RAID? or SATA or PATA or ??
> > > 
> > >  - jim

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