> -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:36 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Drives are going way down > > Make sure you keep the cds, or setup a mirror. > > Because the time and pain caused by a 750GB hard drive failure is > immense.
Better yet get two (or four) and build a RAID array. There are some really cheap USB two drive enclosures out there and a TON of intelligent four-drive solutions. I just ordered a ReadyNAS NV (my original ReadyNAS is packed to the gills). I went eBay to save some money on the box itself (got it for a still pricey $500, but saved around $300) and got four Terabyte drives from NewEgg. The whole thing will end up at about $1500 and give me three terabytes of networked RAID 5 storage. The ReadyNAS boxes are smart enough so that you can start with a single drive and add more storage dynamically as you need/can afford to. Of course you don't need a dedicated NAS box... an old PC with enough space for the drives in it (anything from the past 8 or so years would work) could be loaded with Linux and do the same thing. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:256304 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
