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

Kevin Flanagan kevin at flanagannc.net
Sat Jul 30 19:03:59 EDT 2005


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Craig,

	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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