External scsi enclosure

[A. Khattri]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> Was looking for the same thing myself, not too long ago. Be advised that
> external RAID enclosures are NOT cheap. In fact, they are extremely
> expensive. I don't know about the performance because I've never
> actually bought one.

Probably cheaper to buy a PC, drop a 3Ware SATA RAID controller and four
Seagates into it and make your own RAID storage server.

(We recently did something similar - the card was around $400 but 160Gb
Seagates from our supplier came to $106 each!).


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