Onnto DataTale 4-Bay RAID System w/Quad Interface:
http://oyendigital.com/hard-
Simple unmanaged FW800 RAID. Just works. I've had good luck so far.
$380
4x Seagate ST31500341AS Barracuda 7200.11
$130 each = $520
Benchmarks of this combination:
http://spreadsheets.google.
So $900 for 4.5TB of RAID5 bulk storage that outperforms your laptop's
drive, and might outperform your desktop's drive. Fast enough over
FW800 that you can do your edits right on the array, rather than
copying back and forth. If you have an SSD, you might want to do the
copying anyway. You can check out my XBench benchmark results to see why.
But RAID isn't a backup. How do you back up 4.5TB of stuff?
Quad Interface FireWire 800/400/USB 2.0/eSATA - SATA I/II Hard Drive Docking Bay
http://www.newertech.com/
Just got this today, haven't had a chance to evaluate.
$100
Use the same 1.5TB Seagate drives as backup disks. Keep a few
off-site. Should a drive in the array fail, you can repurpose one of
your old backup disks as a replacement for the dead drive.
I think what I've outlined above should be pretty close to the current
price/performance sweet-spot for FW800 storage and backups.
Everything has been dead-simple so far, and hasn't involved anywhere
near the amount of tinkering I had to do with my NAS. If the docking
bay behaves as expected, I'm a very happy camper. Any suggestions for
improvement, or am I spot-on?
0 comments:
Post a Comment