Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

2012-01-02 Thread Tom Metro
Benjamin Carr wrote: I am personally enamored of the HP Proliant Microserver... It has a 64bit AMD Athlon II Neo processor, two DIMM slots (supports ECC), one gigabit NIC, a four drive cage (not hot-swap)... It is $330 from NewEgg with a throw away 250GB drive and 1GB of Ram. I wish they

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, Backblaze

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Metro
Kurt Keville wrote: I have been following this dialogue at various locations... like http://openstoragepod.org/ ... it is remarkable how cheap DIY NAS is getting... Thanks for the link. It says they were inspired by the Backblaze project. For those not familiar, Backblaze is in the business of

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, Backblaze

2011-07-29 Thread John Abreau
Sounds about right. A few years ago I paid $779 for a 12-disk enclosure from newegg, plus another $120 for a 1U server from ebay to run the thing. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com wrote: Kurt Keville wrote: I have been following this dialogue at various

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, 2.5 drives

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Metro
Kurt Keville wrote: I wonder if this approach would scale up and down to laptop drives? It may be that you get higher density with that form factor... it will be more robust I would think. Higher density, sure, but robust? Because 2.5 drives are more hardened against physical shock? I see a

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, Backblaze

2011-07-29 Thread Derek Atkins
On Fri, July 29, 2011 2:57 pm, John Abreau wrote: Sounds about right. A few years ago I paid $779 for a 12-disk enclosure from newegg, plus another $120 for a 1U server from ebay to run the thing. Right now you can pay ~$350 for a 20-disk enclosure from NewEgg:

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, 2.5 drives

2011-07-29 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
On 7/29/2011 3:02 PM, Tom Metro wrote: When I recently bought a 1TB 2.5 drive, I noticed the WD offering was 12.5mm, and so I bought a 9.5mm Samsung: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152291 which NewEgg now lists as deactivated. I wonder why. Samsung's storage

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Metro
Daniel Feenberg wrote: And what would be wrong with the Antec Twelve Hundred case, available from Microcenter for $185? http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0361137 Not rack-mountable, but otherwise a fine, quiet case with lots of air movement and space for

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, Backblaze

2011-07-29 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, John Abreau wrote: Sounds about right. A few years ago I paid $779 for a 12-disk enclosure from newegg, plus another $120 for a 1U server from ebay to run the thing. And what would be wrong

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

2011-07-28 Thread Kurt Keville
I have been following this dialogue at various locations... like http://openstoragepod.org/ ... it is remarkable how cheap DIY NAS is getting... I think 2TB is the biggest we will see a desktop drive; I wonder if this approach would scale up and down to laptop drives? It may be that you get

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

2011-07-28 Thread Derek Atkins
On Thu, July 28, 2011 4:40 pm, Kurt Keville wrote: I have been following this dialogue at various locations... like http://openstoragepod.org/ ... it is remarkable how cheap DIY NAS is getting... I think 2TB is the biggest we will see a desktop drive; I wonder if this approach would scale

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

2011-07-28 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
On 7/28/2011 4:40 PM, Kurt Keville wrote: I have been following this dialogue at various locations... like http://openstoragepod.org/ ... it is remarkable how cheap DIY NAS is getting... I think 2TB is the biggest we will see a desktop drive; I wonder if this approach would scale up and down to

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

2011-07-28 Thread Kurt Keville
I meant laptop drives... I think I read an interview that said the most density we will ever see is 2TB on a laptop and 4TB on a desktop drive... will see if I can find the article; was more of a business issue than an integration one... At 05:05 PM 7/28/2011, Derek Atkins wrote: On Thu,

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

2011-07-19 Thread Benjamin Carr
Just a follow up, I ordered today, the price dropped to $289 - $10 NEWCUSTOMER10 coupon, which brought it to $279 shipped with a free LG DVDRW. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859105905 This is for the model with the 200W PS, 1GB Dimm, and 160GB HD. Both of which will be

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

2011-07-19 Thread Tom Metro
Benjamin Carr wrote: Just a follow up, I ordered today, the price dropped to $289 - $10 NEWCUSTOMER10 coupon, which brought it to $279 shipped with a free LG DVDRW. Not bad. I've found with NewEgg if you add an item to your shopping cart and abandon it, they'll sometimes send you an email the

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

2011-07-16 Thread Tom Metro
Benjamin Carr wrote: I am personally enamored of the HP Proliant Microserver... It has a 64bit AMD Athlon II Neo processor, two DIMM slots (supports ECC), one gigabit NIC, a four drive cage (not hot-swap)... Nice packaging. All that in a 10 x 10 x 8 cube. Given the 4-drive cage, it seems to be