Cheap home mass storage?? (was - RE: [wplug] OT - word of warning
on Maxtor 250GB drives)
Michael Semcheski
lists at immuneit.com
Wed Feb 15 09:53:06 EST 2006
Vanco, Don wrote:
> So I should ask - does anyone have any ideas for cheap home mass
> storage (above 2TB)? ...
> Any comments? I'd love to find 3 to 5 TB (JBOD even) at under 5
> grand.....
Here's what I did:
Get a SuperMicro 16 bay enclosure. ~$900
Get an Adaptec 16 port SATA RAID card. $~900
Get your motherboard, CPU, RAM. Nothing fancy. $200.
So there's $2000 and you're set with a RAID enclosure that can hold
about 16 drives. Lose a drive for hotswap, and about three for parity.
If you buy 400GB drives, my back of the napkin calculations show you can
get about 4.8TB. 16 drives * $250, is about $4000. But, if you buy
them in chunks (4 or 5 at a time), by the time you need the second
array, the price will have come down, and by the third array, you may be
looking at about $200 per drive.
So that's 4.8TB, for $6000. Tough to beat.
Mike
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