<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The Norco DS-1210 is a Firewire attached 12 drive RAID enclosure.<br>Newegg sells it for $570, which last I checked is about the price of
<br>the hardware for 3 computers (~$200 each, assuming modest *very*<br>hardware), with a lower electrical power requirement, a lower space<br>requirement, an increased ease of installation, etc.<br></blockquote></div><br>
Wow, that is a *nice* looking piece of hardware. I presume it shows up as 1 (in the case of RAID0) or 12 firewire mass-storage devices, so you have the option of software-RAID'ing them up in whatever configuration you see fit?
<br><br>Man, that thing alone would convince me to invest in a rack for my basement... :)<br><br>Brett.<br>