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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=228232121-26032009>Hi
Andrew</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=228232121-26032009>Yep,
had thought about NAS boxes, but put them aside for two reasons. Firstly,
I wanted to bunggle my way through it myself, and secondly I don't think I can
SSH into them through the Internet without some jiggery pokery that I don't know
about .... yet!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=228232121-26032009>Ian</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Andrew Ballantine
[mailto:acballantine@googlemail.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 24 March 2009
11:40<BR><B>To:</B> ianpascoe@btinternet.com<BR><B>Cc:</B>
Malvern@mailman.lug.org.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Malvern] External
HDs<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Ian,<BR><BR>If you are, ideally, looking for an
external Raid solution, have you considered an external NAS box. There is a
choice of SATA or IDE with support for terabyte drives. At minimum you can
have a 500GB Raid 2 (mirrored) configuration. The box I have is for 3.5in
drives, but there may well be 2.5in NAS boxes as well. The 3.5in NAS boxes are
about £70-£135 without drives.<BR>These boxes are quite small (22cm x 8cm x
13cm) and portable if need be.<BR>A NAS box is connected to the LAN and can be
accessed by more than one computer and is Windows and Linux
compatible.<BR><BR>Just a thought.<BR><BR><A
href="http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=411+500001+1000088&Ntk=gensearch_003&Ntt=nas&Ntx=">http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=411+500001+1000088&Ntk=gensearch_003&Ntt=nas&Ntx=</A><BR><BR><A
href="http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=49GV">http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=49GV</A>
(Allows drives of any size)<BR><BR>Kind regards,<BR><BR>AndreW
Ballantine.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>2009/3/23 Ian Pascoe <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:ianpascoe@btinternet.com">ianpascoe@btinternet.com</A>></SPAN><BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Guys<BR><BR>Thinking
of getting some external (to be easily removable) storage. My
only<BR>real criteria is that it's > 250Gb and ideally powered from the
PC. This<BR>gives me a choice of eithre USB 2.0 or SATA drives; maybe
also IDE?<BR><BR>The interface to the host PC is USB 2.0 as I've acquired a
couple of<BR>Viglen's MPC-L;s and they're not short of USB sockets,
with a view to<BR>making them file servers.<BR><BR>I don't mind mounting
them in a multi bay caddy if the caddy requires it's<BR>own power
supply, but not power supplys to individual drives.<BR><BR>The drives
have to be both Linux and Windblows compatible. There will be
in<BR>multiples of 2 - one the live disk and the other a carbon copy of it
-<BR>thought of RAID but it doesn't give me the pull out and use elsewhere
ease<BR>of use.<BR><BR>To an aside, anyone have current experience of the
Windblows X3 drivers -<BR>are they any more reliable than they were a
couple of years ago?<BR><BR>Peoples
thoughts?<BR><BR>Ian<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Malvern
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clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Kind regards,<BR><BR>Andrew
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