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Subject: Re: Netwroked Storage
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Hi,

> For the past few months I have been researching methods to create a
> storage enclosure, perferably with out spending many 10s of k's of
> $'s.

You can asemble the machine yourself, I have put up a storage (for
back-up, slow SATA disks, 7.5 TB, only one quad core AMD 1.9 GHz and
4GB RAM) for 2K$.

You can consider running freenas, based on FreeBSD, on the system.

Best,

Olivier