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Best External Storage Solution for SOHO Setups?

Posted by Cliff on from the gigabytes-for-the-small-or-home-office dept.

terradyn asks: "Recently, I've been looking for a cheap external storage subsystem solution. Aside from the fibre channel high end solutions out there (IBM FastT, HP EVA, etc.), I haven't been able to find much for the SOHO type market. My current best possibility is this. It provides the capacity and interface type I was looking for (8 bay, ATA6, 1394) but lacks features like RAID5 or NAS type abilities. Has anyone found a better solution with at least RAID5 in a similar or smaller form factor for use in the home (I need the space/speed/reliability for video work)?"

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  1. Small(ish) *nix box? by Zocalo · · Score: 1, Insightful
    What about a standard mini-tower form factor PC running your distro of choice? Get an integrated mobo with onboard NIC, onboard ATA RAID, add a 1394 card if you can't get onboard and you are done. You can mount the disks via NFS, Samba or whatever over the LAN or use the Ethernet-over-Firewire driver to use the 1394.

    It just might be able to be tweaked to double as a mail or web server if needed as well... ;)

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  2. Good Grief man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why in the name of heaven would you need this kind of setup for a Small or Home office???? Do you think a Small office is less than 1000 users????
    We have over 40 users at my office and run a Linux+Samba+RAID 1+0 and have no problems. I think you are going into over kill mode.

  3. Is this cheap/large enough? by satterth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    $250*1 3Ware 7500-4 (4 drive, raid 0,1,10,5)

    $200*1 3Ware RDC-400 (4 bay hotswap enclosure)

    $264*4 250GB Maxtor IDE Drives

    =$1506 for 1.0TB (750GB Raid 5, hotswap)

    You can throw all this into your system if you have 3 5-1/4 bays and a PCI slot free. Or invest in an extra computer and a couple gigabit network cards to make it external.

    If you need more space than than then get a 7500-8 or 7500-12 and add more drives.

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  4. Re:This by bryanthompson · · Score: 2, Insightful
    In support of freedom of choice in browser software, this web site is Microsoft-Free on Fridays. Please use any browser except MSIE to access this web site today.
    Should freedom of choice in browsers mean that i have a choice in what browser I use? By making it not work in IE, they've basically voilated their own stance.

    oh yeah, I'm at school, which uses IE, but at home I use Redhat9 with mozilla. so what i'm saying here is that i'm using ie because i have to... which means i dont' have a choice at school, and ahhh! it'll never end.