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
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
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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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