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The Amazing $5k Terabyte Array

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-it-yourself dept.

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. The Amazing 5km Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    1. oh yeah, baby


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    1. Re:The Amazing 5km Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Oh, look! The troll signed its comment (right at the "bottom" (if I dare say so), between square brackets).

  2. Another similar article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I was reading something similar to this the other day here.


    [geeknet.org]

    --I don't click

  3. testing... testing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Hi, I think you should click here [linux.org]

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    not hereREF="www.nytimes.com">

  4. awful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    c'mon, you can do better than that.

    and now for wasting time to reach 20 seconds. this reall, really sucks, Taco.

  5. 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?

    --
    Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
  6. Please tell me your error-correction system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thousands of people with cancer would love to know it.

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

    L0ts 0 pr0n!

  8. read this offtopic post! by kilgore_47 · · Score: 0, Offtopic



    For God's sake, do not kill us! We surrender!

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