Re: [H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-12 Thread DHSinclair
Yes, I know. Sometimes technology just sucks doesn't it? LOL! I am now so far from the wave crest, I can not even see the beach! Best, Duncan At 11:26 12/12/2007 -0500, you wrote: What's sad is that whole machine can now be replaced by 2 1TB mirrored HDs. Oh well :) On Dec 12, 2007 10:44 AM, DH

Re: [H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-12 Thread Brian Weeden
What's sad is that whole machine can now be replaced by 2 1TB mirrored HDs. Oh well :) On Dec 12, 2007 10:44 AM, DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian, > Yes, I recall when you built this tour 'd force. Really enjoyed the banter > as it came to pass. I think that this would be a bit of o

Re: [H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-12 Thread DHSinclair
Brian, Yes, I recall when you built this tour 'd force. Really enjoyed the banter as it came to pass. I think that this would be a bit of overkill for what I plan to do. Heck, I really have a total for ~525GB of OS&Data on all of my machines. I do not know do music/video storage. I'm gonna try N

Re: [H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-12 Thread DHSinclair
Chris, How long did it take you to format those 750GB monsters? Best, Duncan At 01:22 12/12/2007 +, you wrote: I've had no troubles in 6 months using Naslite on a p3-866 440bx w/4 750gb drives as a nas. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T snip

Re: [H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-12 Thread DHSinclair
; -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Reeves > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:23 PM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] big hd opinions? > > I've had no troubles in 6 months using

Re: [H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-12 Thread DHSinclair
Chris, Can you offer some simple explanations regarding the various NASLite offerings? I am still confused by which version is for what. I think I have settled on either the NASLite-2 CDD or the NASLite Server Suite. The planned install will be headless and run from either a created FD or crea

Re: [H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-12 Thread DHSinclair
om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:58 PM > To: Hardware Group > Subject: [H] big hd opinions? > > Ready to build my NAS. The m/b is a very old Abit BX6 r2.0 with an > Intel > P2-450. And I

Re: [H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-12 Thread DHSinclair
JRS, Thanks, but I'm trying to limit expense to sw and the drives. Have been scanning hd deals for months and hope some good Christmas season deals. Best, Duncan At 17:14 12/11/2007 -0800, JRS wrote: My current NAS is 2 WD 500 gig PATA drives in a D-Link NAS enclosure. Works very well so far.

Re: [H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-12 Thread Brian Weeden
About 18 months ago I built a RAID 5 array from 6 Seagate Barracuda 250GB drives and an LSI MegaRAID 150-6 controller that I use in my HTPC. Been working great (knock on wood). Of course now the drives are outdated and I've filled up the space. So I was looking into building a bigger array and mi

Re: [H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-12 Thread Thane Sherrington
evart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:20:57 To: Subject: Re: [H] big hd opinions? You're going to need an add-in PCI card anyway. The 440BX in that BX6 board only supported ATA33, and didn't support 48bit LBA. Hence, no drives > 128GB are supported. The OS may b

Re: [H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-11 Thread Greg Sevart
11, 2007 7:23 PM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] big hd opinions? > > I've had no troubles in 6 months using Naslite on a p3-866 440bx w/4 > 750gb drives as a nas. > > > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T >

Re: [H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-11 Thread Chris Reeves
I've had no troubles in 6 months using Naslite on a p3-866 440bx w/4 750gb drives as a nas. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -Original Message- From: "Greg Sevart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:20:57 To: Subject: Re: [H] big hd opinions? You&#

Re: [H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-11 Thread Greg Sevart
why you wouldn't just use RAID10? Greg > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:58 PM > To: Hardware Group > Subject: [H] big hd opinions? > > Ready to bui

Re: [H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-11 Thread JRS
My current NAS is 2 WD 500 gig PATA drives in a D-Link NAS enclosure. Works very well so far I have them in Raid 0, so only have 500 megs of storage, but they were so inexpensive, it doesn't really bother me to "waste" a whole drive. I quit using tapes long ago for backing up my stuff. :

[H] big hd opinions?

2007-12-11 Thread DHSinclair
Ready to build my NAS. The m/b is a very old Abit BX6 r2.0 with an Intel P2-450. And I want it to run headless; like a humming box (appliance) in the corner! I suspect this puts SATA drives out of class ATM, unless I try some PATA/SATA adapters. This is possible; but was really planning to us