...Looks really easy to use and very robust to hard drive failure but the bad ...> I'm finally producing data at home that I care about (DSLR, shooting RAW) so I'm wondering how to construct a robust file server that allows heterogenous access (windows, mac, linux, plan9), is affordable, low-power, ... effort using of-the-shelf items. robustness being the main criterion. I've been...

....nl> wrote: I'm finally producing data at home that I care about (DSLR, shooting RAW) so I'm wondering how to construct a robust file server that allows heterogenous access (windows, mac, linux, plan9), is affordable, low-power, ideally low noise, low... be built with little effort using of-the-shelf items. robustness being the main criterion. I've been looking at coraids ...

I'm finally producing data at home that I care about (DSLR, shooting RAW) so I'm wondering how to construct a robust file server that allows heterogenous access (windows, mac, linux, plan9), is affordable, low-power, ideally low noise, low-... can be built with little effort using of-the-shelf items. robustness being the main criterion. I've been looking at coraids ...

...aoe device. use vblade on a pair of fs(3)-mirrored sata drives. i do that at home. Yes, that's on my wish list. And if I read the documentation correctly, using two vblades ... all the necessary components, specially the 1Gb network adapters, the price is still a little out of home-developer range. you can get an intel gbe adapter for $39. you can get an rtl8169 for about...

... a good point. our first product used laptop drives. at the time one could get more bytes/u of rack space with laptop drives. that's no longer the case. sata drives have gotten much larger and faster. laptop drives have gotten a little bigger but not much faster. if you want a really cheep aoe device. use vblade on a pair of fs(3)-mirrored sata drives. i do that at home. - erik

hello you're right, i just was pointing those disks looks more for home use than coraid products, iirc lacie has also some raid thing with 4 disks for 200USD more. i just found the link: http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10876 but their description is a bit confusing: "Comments : 1TB (Terabyte) = 1000GB. 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending ...

> hello i found this one interesting: http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-Ethernet-External-Drive-300963/dp/B000BKJ5Z0 1TB for about 650USD (about 400USD second hand) is still a bit expensive, but may be it works. I don't know if coraid has something like it (i think the 1U appliance was about 2kUSD). I'm would love something like that too, i lost three hard drives on my...