Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu May 13 14:16:40 CDT 2010
Hi Mark: Why not just stick the drives into an old large box. You will need to upgrade the number of fans and power supply but you will probably just use an above board card on an old motherboard or use the built in RAID on a new one. ASUS has a couple of excellent boards if you decide to go that route. You can also drop in multiple Gigabit LAN cards for faster through-put. Keep me apprised on what you decide an how it works out. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Breen Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 11:38 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] How to build a 16TB backup system Hello All, I suppose I am a nerd, but I watched this with baited breath last night and woke up this morning still thinking about it. Absolutely brilliant camera and editing work. I suppose that the performance is fast, but on the other hand, I recently purchased, on behalf of a customer 8 x 2 TB drives, approx €187 per drive plus VAT. What was neat about this was they are all external USB with independant PSU etc. So I could theoretically, hook up all eight drives stacked neatly, with no cooling, or power worries, and just plug all eight into USB hubs. It would not be ultra fast, but for high storage and medium performance and zero complexity, it is a effective way to acquire 16 TB storage. All for €1600. We actually needed 8 TB, but I wanted mirrors of the 8 TB so I about 16 TB and we sync mirror the drives. Very cheap, and I arranged it just with a credit card for the drives and nothing else. It is not until right now that I realise that the customer now has 16 TB of storage for € 1600. I am not comparing it to the homemade NAS, just sharing the experience. Mark On 12 May 2010 18:09, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Here is how to over-build a 16 TB backup system for your office. I am sure > it was more than an evening project and the workshop was mouth watering. > > > http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/homemade-16tb-nas-dwarfs-the-competition- > with-insane-build-quali/ > > On the other hand I bet I could build a similar system using a tall desktop > or a server case. > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com