"Poor" man's NAS

[Dominic Lepiane]

On Thursday 08 June 2006 18:52, Steve Jardine wrote:
>
>     The IDE drive stopped at about 56 degrees C. When it was cooled to
> ambient, however, the drive no longer worked. We had the drive electronics
> swapped out with another working drive and it still did not work. The drive
> spun up. It sounded like the seeks worked, but the drive never wrote
> properly again.
>
>     True story..
>

This is why RAID is often known as a Redundant array of Inexpensive disks.  
The disks are cheap so you can toss 'em no sweat and the setup is redundant 
so you can tolerate drive failure with relative ease.  If I was flush, I know 
how to spend the money to get reliability and speed.  That's not a big 
problem.  Just buy a nice big NetApp and start racking drives.

So anyhow, back to the topic at hand... Those Pogo Linux storage servers are 
pretty tight looking.  Coming in under 10K for the "smaller" capacity 
systems.

As for slapping together a box, how much are those Chenbro chassis?  looks 
like under 500$ but since that price wasn't direct from the vendor, I assume 
cost varies.  Still, damned cheap.  Run FreeNAS on there like Bill mentioned 
and that takes the entry cost of an nTB storage system down from 6 figures at 
the high-end to 3-5K for kwality NAS!

Uh, can I borrow some cash?
-- 
Dominic Lepiane

"When I read of the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
- Henry Youngman

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