29 Jul
1999
29 Jul
'99
2:47 p.m.
That's something I was thinking about. I've been looking into
building a new system at home and checked into the ABIT BP6
motherboard. It's a dual Celeron board with 4 EIDE connectors
built in. Supports 4 UDMA-33 and 4 UDMA-33/66 devices at the
same time. IBM has a super fast 22 gig EIDE drive for $300 (boy
they are fast, we have some at work now). Load Linux on it and
have one heck of a cheap server. Currently I still keep copies of all
my old software on CDR, tape and disk. Just want to make sure.
On 29 Jul 99, at 9:20, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Considering how amazingly cheap EIDE hard drives are
getting, I'm
thinking about building an archive server with some form of RAID using
EIDE disks for my Home network at the moment. From what I hear there is
an add-on board that will let you have a max of 8 EIDE hard drives on a
PC, and apparently Maxtor now has 27.2Gb EIDE HD's that you can find for
under $300. Since Linux supports kernel based RAID, it should be fairly
easy to set up a simple disk mirroring system, on something cheap like a
Celeron system. The hardest part might be finding a big enough case :^)
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