www.openfiler.com
That with an old desktop with a pair of 1TB drives will give you a
gret home file server. And you can even set up nfs so it just allways
there for the mac. The real difficulty lies in the sata card if its
not native, but there are likely some sata card that linux will see
just fine for cheap. Leave the orig ide drive and you can soft mirror
them easy.
That's what I would do. Looks like you have some options.
On 12/6/08,
fouldragon@aol.com <
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> Wouldn't JBOD end up setting everything up as a >1300Gb single unit?
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> I'd say to put the backup in a seperate box-- just to isolate it as
> much as possible. If the power supply in the "external storage" NAS
> goes out in violent fashion, or someone deletes the wrong thing, you
> don't want it also taking the "backup" drive.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Dean <alex@crackpot.org>
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> Sent: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 9:54 am
> Subject: OT : disk enclosure recommendation
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> Hi all. I'm helping my father-in-law set up some network storage at
> his house, and I am looking for some recommendations.
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> They currently have an iMac with a 300GB drive. They want to add some
> capacity, and the ability to fully backup both their iMac and the new
> external storage. I've been looking at an enclosure like this :
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822155009
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> I was thinking of getting a 500GB drive (for extra primary storage) and
> a >800GB drive (for backup). Configuring the NAS as JBOD rather than
> RAID, I think this will suit all their needs pretty well. We'll also
> get a gigabit ethernet switch to keep things moving quickly.
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> Any other configurations you think might be better? What should I look
> for in the drives themselves?
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