On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 01:56:05PM -1000, Matt Darnell wrote: > >Perhaps we should let Vince propose which drive(s) to purchase, @ < > >$200 each. > > > >I think we have "three" hands up to buy one and donate. > > I think there are four people: > > Jim Thompson > Michael Bishop > Clifton Royston > Matt Darnell
Yes. Thanks to Scott for the initial hardware. Thanks to Matt, Michael, Scott, Warren, and the anonymous HOSEF/McKinley donations for the second and third round of upgrades. > I wonder if a SATA add-in card should be added to the wish > list. I can imagine finding a box to support all the IDE > devices in four years will be a challenge. 3ware makes the only SATA cards that I have personally known to work over the past 3 years and a 4-port card will run about $300. Silicon Image makes sub-$100 cards, but I have not used them in a year. Adaptec ships too many cards to make any sense of. Sticking with PATA would be non-ideal, but it is no showstopper. I think 500GB PATA disks should out live their usefulness in 4 years for file mirror. -Vince _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau