On 8/1/07, Vikram Ranade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 750 GB drives cost 11k each at Nehru Place. > > we've just bought a bunch of them for storage.
bunch of 750GB HDD for home storage. gulp! i agree with kishore, you gotta give a talk at freed.in "Raiding the kitchen: what's cooking in terabytes at home." 01. seems like everyone's recommending going the hard-disks way, where the hard-disk *is* the removable media. we live in interesting times. am confused on whether i should go raid0, 1, or 5. refreshed my theory-fundas off wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID but what do you guys recommend? 02. surprisingly, no one is recommending tape-archive. but makes sense too. 03. the amazon S3 idea is a winner on its own merit. but will have to psychologically prepare myself: my home personal data, totalling several gigabytes, is in a digital godown several hundred miles away, accessible from anywhere with a click, for which i have to pay rent every month in US dollars. now we live in even more interesting times. 04. even off-line archive on hardisks is being recommended. however, i just had a nasty clickety-click on a 3-week old hardisk i was still filling to the brim with data. 05. what i find unusual is no one is recommending HD-DVD or blueray? is it out and available in india? at what prices? what is the actual storage available on those new shiny platters? 06. last week i discovered some companies have started shipping a Network-Attached-Storage with built-in wi-fi. i dunno if this is available in india, and at what price. what do you guys think? incidentally, those keen to check out what made me stumble to this wifi-NAS, click here: www.sonos.com and you'll understand why people would need a wifi-NAS at home. great link for ankur rohtagi. ;-) wouldn't a wifi-NAS make sense? i know this is a dumb question, but hey! i'm dumb! would a NAS be as reliable as a RAID5 array, performance, price, etc...? thanks for your continued discussions on this topic. am glad to learn from all of you and appreciate your sharing. :-) niyam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
