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The Amazing $5k Terabyte Array

An anonymous reader writes: "Running out of space on your local disk? How about a Terabyte array for only a few thousand dollars. This article at KCGeek.com shows how to put together 1000 Gigs of hard drive space for the cost of a few desktop computers." I could rip my entire anime collection for instant access! Rip all my CDs and still have .9 Terabytes left! Maybe Mirror Usenet! I guess the simple truth is that now that 100 gig drives are a couple hundred bucks, we now have the ability to store anything we reasonably could need (unless you define "Reasonable" as "I need to store DNA Sequences").

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  1. Re:The Amazing $5k Terabyte Array by Lumpy · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    please tell me how you get 6 IDE drives on a pc that gives you any performance in a rad function... U160 SCSI drives will give you at least a 70% speed increase and a 80% increase in reliability....

    If I had to store a terebyte of information I'd be an idiot to use consumer level storage (IDE).

    Ever wonder why real servers uses SCSI?

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  2. L0ts 0 pr0n! by nuetron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    L0ts 0 pr0n!

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