Re: was: 8TB of external storage

Let's try that again.

I was thinking of this thing that I had been seeing in the Fry's ads lately:

http://www.amazon.com/Hitachi-SimpleNET-Portable-Dongle-SNET/dp/B002CMEIV6

but after reading those reviews, I don't think I'll be doing that any time soon.

I think your enclosure below looks really good - RAID 1, small footprint, low 
power usage, relatively cheap...  perfect for my uses.




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From: Timothy J. Wielgos <[email protected]>
To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion 
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Sent: Tue, November 23, 2010 11:51:03 PM
Subject: Re: [LUNI] was: 8TB of external storage


Actually, I was thinking of this that I had been seeing in the Fry's ads lately:





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From: Jay Strauss <[email protected]>
To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion 
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Sent: Tue, November 23, 2010 10:54:09 PM
Subject: Re: [LUNI] was: 8TB of external storage

Tim


On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Timothy J. Wielgos <[email protected]> wrote:

If I had it to do over again, I'd just use one of the USB to NAS appliances that 
Fry's sells along with a USB disk enclosure or two.

When you say the above, do you mean one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822155009

 
 
  The Fedora box is proving to be too much of a power hog.
>
>If you're determined to get a linux box built for the purpose, you might want to 
>consider an ultra low power unit, like an Intel Atom.
>
>
>

I was thinking about possibly doing an Atom based machine.  Not sure what issues 
I'll run into

Jay

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