On 1/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jarod Wilson</b> <<a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com">jarod@wilsonet.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;">
On Monday 30 January 2006 09:08, Steven Adeff wrote:<br>> have a RAID 5 (using mdadm) with 3 300gig drives giving me 600gigs, cost<br>> $360 for the drives (120 each). Gives me a lot of recording time,<br>> especially after I cut the commercials out.
<br><br>Muahahaha! I just got a *sweet* deal on eight 250GB SATA drives ($40 ea). I'm<br>putting 'em all on a 3Ware Escalade 9500s-8, set up in a hardware RAID5 w/a<br>hot spare. To make it even more fun, that'll be 1.5TB
of fairly redundant<br>storage fully dedicated to Myth, because the OS is going on a 4-drive RAID10<br>array... =)<br><br>--<br>Jarod Wilson<br><a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com">jarod@wilsonet.com</a></blockquote><div>
<br><br>wow, *jealous*.... <begins scouring the net for $40 250GB SATA drives.....><br><br>-- <br>Steve<br></div></div>