Nathan Allen Stratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > The 2.0TB comes from four 500GB drives ($1400), which are pretty > > pricey on a $/GB basis right now. > > Why did you go with 500 gig drives? I ended up going with 12 320 gig > drives for 3.5 TB because it was much lower cost then going with 500 > gig drives.
Unfortunately the Infrant only takes four drives. I could have gone this route: 8 X $150 320GB Western Digital drives = 2560 GB = $1200 2 X Infrant ReadyNAS 600 units without drives = $1200 So, for $2400 or about $300 more than I paid I could have gained an extra NAS unit and 560GB more space. Slightly cheaper on a $/GB basis than my $2100 for 2000GB, but incredibly so. Yes, I earlier acknowledged I could have built a second rackmount server-based eight-drive array for considerably less, but also as mentioned earlier I simply did not want the hassle of dealing with another computer on top of the three Linux (primary server, storage server, MythTV box) and one OS X box (iBook) in my studio apartment. Closet space, or lack thereof, was and remains a serious concern! -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
