[TriLUG] Storage, more Storage and even More Storage

[Thomas V Thomas]

Buffalo 500GB Linkstation Pro has good reviews,

Buffalo 500GB LinkStation Pro Network Shared Storage - SATA, 2 x USB 2.0, 
7200RPM - Network Hard Drive - LS-500GL

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Jowers" <timjowers at gmail.com>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Storage, more Storage and even More Storage


> You might also consider a SATA on USB. My USB HD from BeyondMicro is 350GB
> and also had a cable to attach directly to a SATA if I ever wanted to do
> that instead of USB. I'm guessing its a vanilla SATA inside so you could
> upgrade disk in the container in a few years. Really handy to carry around
> with you too as it works as a USB drive on whatever OS. It is much, much
> faster than my older 80GB IDE USB drives or my thumb drives. Much faster
> than a circa 2004 notebook drive/drive system and not much noticeably 
> slower
> than internal transfers on SATA drives.
>
> Tim
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:44 AM, metro305 <metro305 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Keith Woodie <kwoodie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I have started archiving my dvds to disk and playing them on my apple
>> > tv..... well i am starting to run low on storage and would like a
>> > sweet deal on some massive amounts of storage.  Anyone have any ideas
>> > or sweet deals out there?  Ideally I would like to target the 500Gig
>> > to 1TB storage arena.  Must work with Linux, Mac and Windows.  Can be
>> > NAS or just drives.  I don't have a SATA in my current Linux machine
>> > so I would have to get a controller card if SATA is an option.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
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>>
>> Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA
>> 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
>> $129.99 free shipping.  Supposedly fast and reliable drives but according
>> to
>> some comments shipping/packing at Newegg is mediocre at times causing
>> DOAs.
>>
>>
>> Good luck!
>> metro305
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