Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:11:46 +0000 (UTC) From: Sergei Gnezdov <use-reply-to@nofrom.not> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheap, reliable mass storage Message-ID: <slrncv910q.2c54.use-reply-to@sergei.homeunix.org> References: <20050123225900.GA17863@logik.ath.cx>
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On 2005-01-23, markzero <mark@darklogik.org> wrote: > > To clarify, I'm looking for long-term reliability, low cost and large > space rather than high performance. I have a budget of around $600-900 > to spend but I would not have to buy a PC as I have plenty of old > machines (average spec: Intel P3 700mhz) laying around that would=20 > probably be up to the job. You can buy lots of storage for $900... How much storage do you need? One way to do it. Take one machine, get 2 large drives for the data, one smaller drive for the OS and a CD-ROM drive. Send all the data to the first data drive and configure OS to sync second drive every 24 hours. If you have a pranoia about safety of the data on one machine, buy external drive enclosure. Attach external drive only when it is time to run a backup.
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