Or you could just get your 1TB in a nifty little package from Lacie. Want Mirroring? buy two for less than the price of one of those Xserves.
www.lacie.com
I've recently been given a similar task in constructing a new fileserver,
and when I came across the products available from 3ware I knew I found the answer.
Their raid cards are rock-solid, work exceedingly well with linux and come in almost any configuration you could ever ask for.
The real kicker is that they're built around supporting inexpensive PATA and SATA hard-drives, rather than high-end SCSI.
http://www.3ware.com
Then for a case to put all those drives in,
P-link offers a few that do a decent job.
The quality of these cases is somewhat mediocre,
but the price is hard to argue. Just don't buy
swappable drive bays here, as those can be found for half the price anywhere else.
http://www.plinkusa.net/web5101.htm
You are correct in that it is technically illegal.. But then why do so many scanlation sites still exist openly? The answer is simply that untill the series is licensed in the US, You won't find a US publisher who cares.. On the contrary, they actually benefit from the practice.
Without the fansub/scanlation community it's hard to say wether or not Anime/Manga would have even caught on in the US as it has in the first place.
And when the series (if popular enough) does get licensed in the US, most scanlation sites will remove their version from public access as soon as they are informed.
It's like a free head-start for publishers. They can even gauge wether or not the series will succeed in the US based on its popularity on such sites.
I'm currently translating a series called OpenSesame on animewaves.net and I would absolutely love to see it licensed. Even though my translation would disappear, it would be more than worth it knowing that I just might have had a little hand in increasing the popularity of Manga in the US.
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Or you could just get your 1TB in a nifty little package from Lacie. Want Mirroring? buy two for less than the price of one of those Xserves. www.lacie.com
I've recently been given a similar task in constructing a new fileserver, and when I came across the products available from 3ware I knew I found the answer. Their raid cards are rock-solid, work exceedingly well with linux and come in almost any configuration you could ever ask for. The real kicker is that they're built around supporting inexpensive PATA and SATA hard-drives, rather than high-end SCSI. http://www.3ware.com
Then for a case to put all those drives in, P-link offers a few that do a decent job. The quality of these cases is somewhat mediocre, but the price is hard to argue. Just don't buy swappable drive bays here, as those can be found for half the price anywhere else. http://www.plinkusa.net/web5101.htm
Honestly, I wasn't aware at all until reading this article that it was copy protected in the first place.
Like you said, grip ripped it like a charm
The answer is simply that untill the series is licensed in the US, You won't find a US publisher who cares.. On the contrary, they actually benefit from the practice.
Without the fansub/scanlation community it's hard to say wether or not Anime/Manga would have even caught on in the US as it has in the first place. And when the series (if popular enough) does get licensed in the US, most scanlation sites will remove their version from public access as soon as they are informed.
It's like a free head-start for publishers. They can even gauge wether or not the series will succeed in the US based on its popularity on such sites.
I'm currently translating a series called OpenSesame on animewaves.net and I would absolutely love to see it licensed. Even though my translation would disappear, it would be more than worth it knowing that I just might have had a little hand in increasing the popularity of Manga in the US.