[TriLUG] OT: Low cost way to offline 3 Tb

[Nick Goldwater]

I guess you need to define "low cost".
http://tinyurl.com/3xpcdu
Nick

----- "bak" <bak at picklefactory.org> wrote:
| "RAID0 or RAID5 technology can deliver an amazing Read/Write speed
| over 
| 500MB/s (RAID 0) or 470MB/s (RAID 5) in one compact unit."
| 
| I love the specs on these things.  Sorry, nobody is going to be
| getting 
| 500MB/sec simply because they have 2 3.0Gb/s eSATA connectors stuck
| into 
| the back of a 8-disk JBOD.
| 
| --bak
| 
| Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:
| > You could get one of these...
| > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822709035
| >
| > On Jan 22, 2008 3:20 PM, Kevin M. Flanagan <flanagannc at gmail.com>
| wrote:
| >
| >   
| >> If it's for archival purposes, and I believe that was the original
| >> question, a set of hard drives in a NAS device would be cheap,copy
| the data
| >> to it and turn it off.  The life of a disk drive that's _NOT_
| spinning is
| >> quite long. The NAS device would ensure that you would be able to
| just turn
| >> the device on and get to the info.
| >>
| >> Kevin
| >>     
| 
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