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Building a Budget Storage Server

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the long-term-storage-for-your-flicks-and-chicks dept.

An anonymous reader noted an article running over at Firingsquad talking about building a budget storage server. Talks about cooling, power, RAID, expandability, etc. Good overview type article, with practical application.

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  1. Last time I checked by bigjnsa500 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Last time I checked, motherboards only come with 2 IDE channels. According to the article, they are using 4 250gig IDE in 'standard' configuration (ie, no RAID or SATA) and using a system drive. Uh, 4+1 don't add up to 4.

    Since they couldn't afford RAID, what about software RAID? Way faster than normal IDE operations.

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  2. Today's News: by JamesD_UK · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... it's possible to buy a large PC case and fill it with a large number of drives that add up to a volume of storage that was once considered to be large several years ago. What's new here?

    The article could have covered a little more than just the hardware needed to run such a setup, perhaps covering some sort of remote management interface for the storage? It would also have been nice to hear if they solved the problem of backing up this data on a budget too. (Ingoring the possiblilty of burning the data to DVD).

  3. Re:Did I miss something ? by 23_Elders · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I agree, that seemed much more like, "Watch us build an expensive PC with a lot of hard disks" than "Watch us build something useful for reliable network storage."

    I am currently trying to put together a RAID 5 file server and they do not cover any topic of use to me in that article. For example, practical backup solution? They chose a DVD burner, why that over similar tape solutions? I would guess price, but it would be nice if they at least mentioned some of their considerations. Especially since it would take 112 DVD-R's to back up a terrabyte?

    Also, aside from their DVD backups, they seem to have no data recovery plan in case a hard drive fails. I guess they aren't storing anything important on these drives?