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

[Josh Vickery]

Perhaps something like this would work:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/store/Mini_ITX_Systems/Diskless_Mini_ITX_System

The case that is included in that system would be too small for 4
drives, but you might be able to find something that would hold them
all, or if you liked, you could rig up an external rack for the
drives.  That system, in addition to 2 IDE channels has a PCI card, so
if you wanted to add more drives later, you could add a SATA or IDE
card to it.

On 7/30/05, Jim Wright <wrightjim at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> > http://peter.korsgaard.com/articles/debian-nslu2.php
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> > >
> > > 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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