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Storage option for source installs
So I have many developer tools and software items (MSDN being one of them) that I would like copied to the network for access. The thing is, I don't see the need to blow thousands on a NAS device or even a server with 500GB of storage with raid technologies. At the same time, I don't want to sit here and put in DVDs and copy them to the network server with a 400GB IDE HD, and then see it fail months down the line
what do you guys do?
what do you guys do?
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Callandor
Roll your own NAS with an inexpensive server case from Circotech, an old motherboard and cpu, a gigabit NIC, a fast RAID-5 SATA card like an Areca 1220, and as many SATA drives as you can fit into the case (I have 6). It should cost about $1000 for a terabyte, have great performance, and will be upgradable.
Why not just go eSATA?
Get an eSATA RAID card and an external eSATA case w drives .
http://www.satagear.com/SATA_RAID_Cases.html
Get an eSATA RAID card and an external eSATA case w drives .
http://www.satagear.com/SATA_RAID_Cases.html
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so the q uestion is, to get a hard drive external case with network capabilities, or just put a 500gb HD in a old tower
I would put 500 GB in another server that doesn't see much file transfer utilization - the external drives with network capabilities just cost more
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