[TriLUG] Networked storage with 4 x 80G hard drives?

[Jim Wright]

some other good articles on that linksys nas device...
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Reviews-155-ProdID-NSLU2.php
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article85.php

On 7/30/05, Kevin Flanagan <kevin at flanagannc.net> wrote:
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> Craig,
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> I went to look up the USB 2.0 spec, 480Mbits/second is fairly fast, you
> could use something like this
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> http://peter.korsgaard.com/articles/debian-nslu2.php
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> To hang the drives off of, I'd be sure to use as many of the USB chanels
> as possible to avoid contention, but for not much dough you could have a
> fairly decent config.
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> If you need real high speed and reliability you will spend a good bit
> more, and have to put up with a lot more noise,
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> Kevin
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> Craig Duncan wrote:
> > I have 4 80G IDE/ATA hard drives sitting gathering dust and thought that
> > there might be a way to create a networked storage device with some kind
> > of RAID configuration. Just sticking them into an old box is too bulky
> > and too noisy and USB devices are too slow.
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> > Has anyone set up an external network storage device like this or
> > similar. Beyond small and quiet, my only requirements are that I can use
> > the storage from both OSX and Linux.
> >
> > TIA, Craig
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