[TriLUG] Storage, more Storage and even More Storage

[Keith Woodie]

Well I just bought a Promise SATA300 TX4 PCI Controller Card and a
Western Digital 500GB SATAII 7200 16MB Cache drive from newegg.com.
I spent $154 bucks.  I think this will satisfy my need for storage for
awhile.  The nice thing is that the controller card has 4 ports so I
can add three more hard drives at a later date.

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Thomas V Thomas <thomasvt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Buffalo 500GB Linkstation Pro has good reviews,
>
>  Buffalo 500GB LinkStation Pro Network Shared Storage - SATA, 2 x USB 2.0,
>  7200RPM - Network Hard Drive - LS-500GL
>
>  http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=202750992&listingid=5649836&dcaid=17902
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Tim Jowers" <timjowers at gmail.com>
>  To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
>
>
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 11:03 AM
>  Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Storage, more Storage and even More Storage
>
>
>  > You might also consider a SATA on USB. My USB HD from BeyondMicro is 350GB
>  > and also had a cable to attach directly to a SATA if I ever wanted to do
>  > that instead of USB. I'm guessing its a vanilla SATA inside so you could
>  > upgrade disk in the container in a few years. Really handy to carry around
>  > with you too as it works as a USB drive on whatever OS. It is much, much
>  > faster than my older 80GB IDE USB drives or my thumb drives. Much faster
>  > than a circa 2004 notebook drive/drive system and not much noticeably
>  > slower
>  > than internal transfers on SATA drives.
>  >
>  > Tim
>  >
>  >
>  > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:44 AM, metro305 <metro305 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Keith Woodie <kwoodie at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>
>  >> > I have started archiving my dvds to disk and playing them on my apple
>  >> > tv..... well i am starting to run low on storage and would like a
>  >> > sweet deal on some massive amounts of storage.  Anyone have any ideas
>  >> > or sweet deals out there?  Ideally I would like to target the 500Gig
>  >> > to 1TB storage arena.  Must work with Linux, Mac and Windows.  Can be
>  >> > NAS or just drives.  I don't have a SATA in my current Linux machine
>  >> > so I would have to get a controller card if SATA is an option.
>  >> >
>  >> > Thanks in advance.
>  >> >
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>  >>
>  >>
>  >> Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA
>  >> 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
>  >> $129.99 free shipping.  Supposedly fast and reliable drives but according
>  >> to
>  >> some comments shipping/packing at Newegg is mediocre at times causing
>  >> DOAs.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> Good luck!
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