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

Kevin Hunter hunteke at earlham.edu
Tue Jan 22 13:16:56 EST 2008


At 12:54p -0500 on 22 Jan 2008, John Mitchell wrote:
> Time frame is Months to One year.
> 
> I would say $1000.00 as Newegg has 1 Tb drives for $280.00 or so.

I'd say you're pointed in the right direction if it's only for a year. 
You might buy roughly 4 of those TB drives, and perhaps use a RAID5 
configuration as your insurance of your backup.  If it's going to be 
longer than a year, you'll probably need to consider spending more money.

Kevin



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