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

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

I'd be in favor of buying 1tb hdds, or any combination to make your 3tb,
and using OpenFilier on some lower end hardware. Make your own NAS! 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of John Mitchell
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:09 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Low cost way to offline 3 Tb

Kevin M. Flanagan <flanagannc at gmail.com> wrote:
> If it's for archival purposes, and I believe that was the original
question, a set of hard drives in a NAS device would be cheap,copy the
data to it and turn it off.  The life of a disk drive that's _NOT_
spinning is quite long. The NAS device would ensure that you would be
able to just turn the device on and get to the info.
>
  Something like:

So, buy three each 1 Tbyte hard drives (SATA) @ $280.00 & buy two
LinkSys NS200 Network Storage cabinets @ $110.00. (hold two drives each)

Approximate total cost $1060.00 (Newegg prices)

The NAS device would ensure that you would be able to just turn the
device on and get to the info. No special tricks to make it work.
And the two NAS devices would give you a backup device if one failed.

john mitchell
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