[Tfug] In need of hard drive info)

[Harry McGregor]

Well, here is a quick stab at a dedicated box, for maximum storage,
cheapest price.

~9TB usable, with RAID6 and a hot spare.  Uses 9 1.5TB hard disk drives,
6 off the onboard SATA, 1 off the onboard PATA (with adapter), 3 off a
PCI-e card (two SATA, one with a PATA adapter).

Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 01:31:15PM -0700, Harry McGregor wrote:
>   
>> Are you looking at a SAN (block level) or NAS (File level) network storage?
>>
>> Linux has a reasonable iSCSI stack (open-iscsi.org) that could provide
>> you with block level storage, though unless you have a really solid lan,
>> I would not recommend it.
>>
>> Otherwise, I would look at NAS storage with Samba as your back end.
>>     
>
> Whatever is best for a home setup for backup / rare usage (Parallels
> machines I infrequently need) for 2 OS X boxes and 1 Linux box.  Cheap
> is good too (ie stick it in my desktop if there's enough airflow).
>   
Samba is probably your best bet for that, have not checked if time
machine works well over it yet or not.

You could probably do iSCSI with time machine though :)

QTY   Link
1       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147112
9       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337
1       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817995001
1       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151040
1       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815280009
2       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186032
2       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134113
1       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103298
1       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131324
9       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812104059
2       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835705004

Cost with shipping is around $1800

                               Harry