hardware for home use large storage

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, jfarmer at goldsword.com wrote:

> 
> Just out of curiousity, would not an older server like this:
> http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=DL145-5R (~$75 + shipping) or
> http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=DL360-6R&cat=SYS (~$190 + shipping)
> 
> be a reasonable option? Unless you're looking to suck every last bit of speed
> or energy savings out the machine, I would think bumping the memory up on one
> of these, adding one or more eSATA or SAS interfaces and an external drive
> rack would result in an exceptional "home" server with several TB of storage,
> decent speed, still costing less than $1K usd....

way too noisy, even for the basement :(

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D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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