Frank van Bortel wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>
>>IANAL_VISTA wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Earlier this week I came across a vendor who was selling a 1TB for $1K
>>>US!
>>>It contained 4 250GB drives that could be configured as Raid-0, 1 or 5.
>>
>>
>>I'd like the link: Off-line if that is more appropriate.
>
> 250GB Disk drives, at the local supermarket, €120 each,
> ATA-133, 16MB buffer.
> About US$160, at the current rate, I'd say. Totals $540.
> Add some $profit, enclosure, low-cost "RAID controller",
> and you're done.
I was afraid you'd say that. There goes ethernet bonding, there goes
path redundancy, there goes flash-mirror and flash-restore. In comes
OCFS. And, of course, there goes any hardware warranty. But thanks.
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Received on Thu Jun 02 2005 - 10:06:54 CDT
