[Malvern] External HDs

[Ian Pascoe]

Hi Andrew

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!

Ian
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Andrew Ballantine [mailto:acballantine at googlemail.com]
  Sent: 24 March 2009 11:40
  To: ianpascoe at btinternet.com
  Cc: Malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
  Subject: Re: [Malvern] External HDs


  Ian,

  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.
  These boxes are quite small (22cm x 8cm x 13cm) and portable if need be.
  A NAS box is connected to the LAN and can be accessed by more than one
computer and is Windows and Linux compatible.

  Just a thought.

  http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=411+500001+1000088&Ntk=gens
earch_003&Ntt=nas&Ntx=

  http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=49GV  (Allows drives of any
size)

  Kind regards,

  AndreW Ballantine.


  2009/3/23 Ian Pascoe <ianpascoe at btinternet.com>

    Guys

    Thinking of getting some external (to be easily removable) storage.  My
only
    real criteria is that it's > 250Gb and ideally powered from the PC.
This
    gives me a choice of eithre USB 2.0 or SATA drives; maybe also IDE?

    The interface to the host PC is USB 2.0 as I've acquired a couple of
    Viglen's MPC-L;s  and they're not short of USB sockets, with a view to
    making them file servers.

    I don't mind mounting them in a multi bay caddy if the caddy requires
it's
    own power  supply, but not power supplys to individual drives.

    The drives have to be both Linux and Windblows compatible.  There will
be in
    multiples of 2 - one the live disk and the other a carbon copy of it -
    thought of RAID but it doesn't give me the pull out and use elsewhere
ease
    of use.

    To an aside, anyone have current experience of the Windblows X3
 drivers -
    are they any more reliable than they were a couple of years ago?

    Peoples thoughts?

    Ian



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