Terabyte Storage Solutions?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday July 29, 2004 @09:45AM from the large-arrays-of-fat-disks dept.

DeMechman asks: "As many on Slashdot may know, storage is one thing which you can never have enough of. Given the current situation with CD/DVD rot (Personally I can attest to a 10% attrition rate) hard drives in a RAID configuration seem to be a better and more economical solution. If you own more than fifty CD/DVDs, it can be a daunting task to find a file. I am wondering if anyone has found a hardware solution that can inexpensively be set up to handle 10 or more 250GB HDDs in a RAID configuration. Primarily, has any case manufacturer tackled this niche market yet?"

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Re:Terabyte Storage by Achmed · 2004-07-29 10:00 · Score: 5, Funny

> Anyone have any ideas on how to back up 1TB in a home environment? i.e., not $3000 tape drives & $200 tapes

Ummm, yeah, it'll cost you ~$600. make another one and make a copy occasionally...

Sorry, couldn't resist...
Re:What's "inexpensively"? by coolgeek · 2004-07-29 11:32 · Score: 5, Funny

Controller $500
Drives $150 each
Case $150

Redundant Power Supply for RAID Array.....priceless

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