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byAnonymous Coward writes:
Holy cow! $1,699 to $3,799" for "10TB or 12TB" of storage?
Case with 8 internal bays: $40
600 Watt Power supply: $35
MB with 8 SATA3 ports: $115
2.5gig dual core processor: $73
8 2TB drives: $800
1 Gig of RAM: $30
Total: $1093, for 16TB of storage. Yeah, yeah, you need one of them as a spare drive for redundancy, and you need an OS. You also need a few minutes to assemble and install. But for that price? Why pay twice as much? Hell yeah, roll my own, baby!
byAnonymous Coward writes:
Can you work up something with RAID (redundancy, not striping) on a $200-300 budget? (Right now I just use an external USB2 drive for backups; 1TB will do just fine for my needs).
byAnonymous Coward writes:
200 - 300 dollars?
You must be smoking crack dog.
The two hard drives are going to cost you prob 150 dollars, the mb another 50 and then the ram and processor will finish that last hundred off.
Then you need a case, and power supply. Then none of that includes shipping or taxes, so you might be able to get away with 4/5 hundred. That is unless you want windows, in which case just tack another hundred on there.
Man can someone work up a brand new car for me for only 2 grand?
byAnonymous Coward writes:
The 500 was obvious: $1093 - 6/8 * (8 2TB drives: $800) = $493.
But I'm looking for something *a lot cheaper* than that. SW raid into two external drives (e-SATA or USB) would clearly work for less than $150 total.
Surely there's a middle ground? (150+500)/2 = $325. Are there no hardware e-Sata 2:1 mirroring ports? If not, why not? I think there would be a HUGE market for them in the price $50-100 range.
bybagofbeans ( 567926 ) writes:
I got a Fractal Design Array R2 Mini-ITX NAS Case which is gorgeous, takes 6 HDD in a small case. MB is Sapphire Pure Fusion Mini E350 AMD Dual Core E350 which is very low power, 5 x SATA III + 1 eSATA II, USB 3, GbEthernet.
FreeNAS 8 supports the hardware, and ZFS filing system is reliable.
Not enterprise level, but excellent for home use.
byAnonymous Coward writes:
Google tells me that's $170 for the case+power supply, and $170 for the MB+CPU.
So $340 + RAM + hard drives?
Sounds nice, and very relevant to the low-budget discussion. I just wish it was in my budget.
bybagofbeans ( 567926 ) writes:
...and you should budget for 8GB memory to run the ZFS filing system properly. Oh, and FreeNAS runs from a 2GB (min) USB stick, doesn't waste a HDD.
To soft-start the investment, you could buy the MB + RAM first, set it up in a cardboard box with a spare PSU and 5 any-size SATA HDDs you have kicking around.
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