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Subject: [OM] Re: OT Notes on Upgrading - II - Disks - and a question
From: "Tom Scales" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:09:10 -0400


> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Moose
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 2:51 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: OT Notes on Upgrading - II - Disks - and a question
> 
> Tom Scales wrote:
> > ................
> > I'm looking into the pci card approach.  My Dell has 6 SATA drives in
> it (1
> > optical, 5 hard drives) and I need more storage.  I've found a couple
> four
> > port cards that will do Raid5 with external drives.  I'm tempted by
> that.
> > The Seagate 750GB external SATA drives can be had for $199.  Their
> > wonderful, fast drives. I already have 6.
> >
> Thanks for the info. I'm not to that point - yet - but it's inevitable.
> I didn't go for the 750 gb drives 'cause they were still more per mb
> and
> I figure they will be cheaper by the time I need them. Of course by
> then, there will be single 3.5" 1 tb drives. :-)
> 
> Six times $200 is getting close to what I paid for my whole box.
> 
> Moose

We have a whole-house video system.  Lots and lots of recorded shows and
movies, most in HD.  9gb per hour, 2gb once compressed.

The boxes themselves were cheap.  Hard drives were expensive.  With over 6Tb
in the house, I need density.


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