On 6/3/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad Templeton</b> <<a href="mailto:brad+myth@templetons.com">brad+myth@templetons.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<snip><br>I've thus come to the conclusion that I can't afford a drive as small as<br>160gb, even if it's effectively free like this one! That's a 21st<br>century moment.</blockquote><div><br>
I've had the same thought. I have three drives now (original 80Gb and
two 250's with a DVD for the fourth drive). I am considering
replacing the 80 with a larger drive (I'm putting all my DVD's into
mythtv).<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Perhaps somebody should make a low priced external USB case that holds<br>4 EIDE drives on usb-2, just for video arrays. With video arrays you
<br>really don't care a lot about the bandwidth limitations that would<br>give you, a video stream only needs about 20 megabits for ordinary play<br>and record, though more for commercial scan/transcode of course. Right<br>
now such cases would cost a fair bit more than this drive.</blockquote><div><br>
I'd be very interested if anyone knows of something like this that
would be fairly cheap. Everything I've seen is either 1 drive or
is very expensive (NAS devices with hot swapping and such).
Hubbing a bunch of USB drives together is certainly a possibility, and
building a scaled down PC for network attached storage is another, but
I'd really like a less expensive, more elegant solution (especially
when I can get a USB external enclosure (single drive) for less than
$40.<br>
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I'm assuming that a USB drive would look like any other USB device
within Linux and that I couldn't do something like create an LVM volume
with XFS like I do with my internal drives?<br>
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By the way, I previously did a quick thumbnail for a scaled down hard
drive storage (a cheap PC) and ended up with the following:<br>
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$46 Antec mini tower case with 300 Watt P/S<br>
$40 AMD Mobo with USB 2.0, Video, Audio, LAN (100Mb)<br>
$52 AMD Athlon XP 1800+<br>
$44 512Mb PC2700 memory<br>
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$182 plus tax, shipping, etc. (just need to add the drives)<br>
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I didn't include a floppy, DVD, keyboard, monitor, or mouse, since once
it's set up, I shouldn't need them and I can "borrow" any component I
need for setup from one of my other machines.<br>
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My thought would be that a multi-drive cabinet would need to come in
about the same or cheaper (anyone know if I'm missing anything
blatant?). Of course, this still only gets me four drives unless
I put in an additional EIDE controller or get into the SCSI world
(which would increase the drive prices).<br>
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I figured I'd just wait until the holidays and pick up one of those
post-Thanksgiving specials at BestBuy or CircuitCity and get roughly
the same thing plus the DVD and a single HD for about the same price.<br>
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Comments?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
phlepper<br>
</div></div>-- <br>I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -- Confucius