Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:28:28 +0000 From: markzero <mark@darklogik.org> To: sgnezdov@sergei.homeunix.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheap, reliable mass storage Message-ID: <20050124122828.GA71846@logik.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <slrncv910q.2c54.use-reply-to@sergei.homeunix.org> References: <20050123225900.GA17863@logik.ath.cx> <slrncv910q.2c54.use-reply-to@sergei.homeunix.org>
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--liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > 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=3D20 > > probably be up to the job. >=20 > You can buy lots of storage for $900... How much storage do you need? >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. Oops, that's quite an important bit of information to miss isn't it. I was hoping to grab around 1TB of storage, but I'm not sure how likely this is with the current budget. I was thinking of buying 4 x 300gb drives and a RAID card from Promise. I would then do as you'd advised and put a small 4gb drive in the machine with a mini-install of FreeBSD. Do you think there would be any problem with this? I'd like to get all issues ironed out before I go off spending... :) Mark --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iQIVAwUBQfTp66faOQ/e/53RAQLiYA//Zw11nHU/a9Vl+MJN0grJ+QRM1q5i/u0p X7+voAuBso7RT2cSvdNhgrxBxReOtw1CT4R83FWZ+LsQCdJJWdMJ9UDH1VOB9yEU 2ibfw4WUrwjS/BmHlju58U2nHTphpqzoD2vI76BcjwrDfW42hyXeam+PmQjD/XXJ q7ZKFQJPPjaW/BSR5sRAtODN22GKnSAYVccvfkBjBpVV1N6xycP/bdouE772q2Dy 4mbcK45nFV3Hhhe7tLRyH4kN9sdmUQEsYzvEchcHcv1XIDdLYTsc6UnImlu1SW8U PF1jPW4oIEj4fe3gM6NkP5kqtPnb7/f/XXCHZxcdNnrsWWURDQ5cnkUAoS5ZqCri Bdf/l+T5LUx1pg0yRk6wD+b5TNl00UGADOnzLj0vqQyFZtgTtJxkr0lHzctSZfCD SpfGqBkImH2MuyeHUP90HFIW9tnM6Q+lwPdA1ZgobgUpaYYc7V0V3Q1sHOZViOWM DEO7rp/Gd72m3YofnlvFbL87daK3ZQqhEzWbyeh2xpgDWxGqMCN6oTuAuHuJmU1u 7xX/Wc2LU0EVVNRhqBTDDjAQdO0o3JIADzb7qR4Ky9h1nujh5IOhTo5k9IVK4WHy e73lx5wJzTYUqo0HD5XBBH0XYbE1CmIDzg3OMdkD6hqcIVKc+K/W4DjCt/QHaa1U eKrYkhpO/E8= =7l6o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr--
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