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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

On the subject, anyone have experience with any inexpensive drive cases
capable of two (or more) drives with FireWire 400 or 800? Hot swap bays
would be nice, but not required. Looking to set up a RAID 1 for backups, but
would directly connect with FireWire, rather than over a SAN.

Thanks,
David


On 12/05/06 10:42 AM, "Ken Pugh" <kpughmisc AT pughkilleen.com> wrote:

> I'm looking at buying a network storage device for my
> home/office.  Here are the uses, specs, and possiblities I've come up with.
> 
> Uses:
> a.) First level backup for notebooks.
> b.) Central storage for photographs/music/etc.
> 
> 1.) RAID 1
> 2.) 500 GB minimum
> 3.) Low electric usage
> 4.) Quiet
> 
> Possibilities:
> 
> a.) Cheap computer with lots of storage.  No hardware RAID.  Probably
> could get software RAID
> b.) DLINK DNS-323 - 2 bays
> c.) Buffalo Terrastation
> d.) Buffalo LinkStation
> d.) Infrant ReadyNAS (e.g. NV+)
> 
> My questions:
> 
> 1.) Anybody have any experience with any of the small NAS
> systems?  I've taught for EMC, so I know about the big ones.  They
> just won't fit my budget.
> 
> 2.) Any suggestions for additional specs?    (e.g. SATA, rather than
> IDE drives?)
> 
> Thanks in advance for your comments.
> 
> Ken
> 
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