[PLUG] Network storage

[m0gely]

John Jason Jordan wrote:

> Here is one I found on eBay:
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/400-Gb-Network-Attached-Storage-NAS-Hard-drive-Maxtor_W0QQitemZ130068624668QQihZ003QQcategoryZ106273QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I've been mulling over the best way to do something like this as well. 
One of the problems I am trying to overcome is power consumption. 
Running a fill fledged tower as Larry mentioned isn't an option for me. 
  I look at all the computers running around me all the time at my home 
and my electrical bill and it's just not right. ;)

The other thing I need to address is redundancy.  Hard drives just hold 
too much darned info these days.  The time it would take to rebuild most 
of what I have now from a total loss just makes me shake my head.  I 
don't have any performance requirements that a RAID-1 couldn't handle, 
and there are 2 and 4 drive NAS units that I've seen that would work 
great for the home.  Here are some nice looking unit's, but alas, not NAS.

   http://search.ebay.com/sans-digital

That's some sexy tech right there.  Now if they would just release a 
matching mini-itx chassis to sit on top of that...

This leads to the other option to build a low power machine using 
mini-itx as the base, and an external USB/1394/eSATA attached RAID-1 
chassis.  This would offer more possibilities and wouldn't kill the 
electric bill, and I could leave more machines turned off.  But, it's 
more money upfront.

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- m0gely