5240 Datasettes per gigabyte
My page here, about my continuing quest to find a simple way to get monstrous storage at home, ends with a list of Network Attached Storage boxes that have the very-helpful-for-many-users disk sleep function.
If you’d like to see a more comprehensive list of NAS gadgets with and without sleep, check out this one here. Unfortunately, that list was last updated more than a year ago. Does anybody know an up-to-date list? Surely some dork dedicated enthusiast must be devoting his weekends to this pursuit?
NAS does not amuse me. I'm looking at somewhat cheaper and somewhat bigger.. currently putting plans together for a PCI-X or PCI Express X4 based hardware raid 5 in the 2tb range.
Wish I could find good reviews on raid cards 8 (
Comment by Wire_Geek — November 18, 2006 @ 7:14 am
How about using one of the current generation Athlon mobos with its in-built RAID5 and 6 x SATA slots? I'm building a similar machine for my boss now with 6 x 320Gb drives for a formatted capactity of around 1.5Tb. And you can certainly put in bigger (and much more expensive) drives. Just don't forget that Windows can't handle physical drives >2Tb. You could put together a box like that for under AU$2k plus drives, which is what you'll pay for similar sized RAID boxes without all the other attendant abilities of being a proper computer.
Comment by Bedlam — November 19, 2006 @ 4:02 pm