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500GBs for 117 Euro
I just bought last Friday a 500GBs Sata2 Seagate for 117 Euros. Thats the best price I could find here in Porgugal, and since prices are going up again I had to take the chance to buy it.
Then i need to buy a PCI Sata controller (do they really work only at 1,5Gib and not 3Gib??) since I own an old MSI for my AMD 1.9+.
I even had to disconnect one of my 3 other PATA drives (120 Seagate, 160 Samsung [this drives are so silent and cooler then the others], 200 WD).
Now my question for you: can you point me in the direction of building/buying my own NAS or external disk rack, where I can place all my PATA disks?
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George... you %(^%&$*&!!!!!  Sabz5150 | 04/30/07
Hehe, sorry.  georgeou | 04/30/07
500GBs for 117 Euro  (``-_-´´) | 04/30/07
FreeNAS  Sabz5150 | 04/30/07
Decimal vs. binary  jinko | 04/30/07
There must be a lot  Freebird54 | 04/30/07
Maybe ...  p_msac@... | 04/30/07
loja da eskina  (``-_-´´) | 05/02/07
Corner shop ...  p_msac@... | 05/03/07
The controller with 6 ports cost more than a new Motherboard  georgeou | 04/30/07
Should have bought six drives...  jinko | 04/30/07
Never buy before you need it!  georgeou | 04/30/07
Technically george, that backplane is just for convenience  Valis Keogh | 04/30/07
Important convenience!  RestonTechAlec | 04/30/07
not at all!  Valis Keogh | 04/30/07
External doesn't perform as well  georgeou | 04/30/07
Sure it is, but it's a BIG convenience  georgeou | 04/30/07
Sure, unless your like Sabz  deefburger | 05/01/07
Sadly, this blog entry could result in a lot of death-by-wife  georgeou | 05/01/07
Genuine Hot-Swap convenience  danson@... | 04/30/07
Where Can I get 500 gig Drives for $120?  CortnyCox | 04/30/07
check newegg, pricewatch, zipzoomfly  Valis Keogh | 04/30/07
I got it on sale at Fry's for $119  georgeou | 04/30/07
Fry's is online too!  shraven | 05/02/07
Where to get hard drives.  desperado652@... | 04/30/07
what type RAID and what primary applications?  JetJaguar | 04/30/07
Will be doing a piece just on RAID  georgeou | 04/30/07
careful choice of drives for Raid 5  astro_z | 04/30/07
RAID 10  voska | 04/30/07
No, RAID 10 is when you stripe a mirrored set  georgeou | 04/30/07
RAID 15  nucrash | 05/01/07
That's kind of silly redundancy  georgeou | 05/01/07
independent sets of RAID1 delivering best IOPS  JetJaguar | 05/01/07
Yes. And I'm about to publish some hard numbers proving it.  georgeou | 05/01/07
interesting  JetJaguar | 05/02/07
MySQL possibly  georgeou | 05/02/07
WHS' Drive Extender technology  muzhik | 05/03/07
Drive extender is different  georgeou | 05/17/07
What were you smoking in 1992?  irisa | 04/30/07
what are you CURRENTLY smokeing?  Valis Keogh | 04/30/07
Cubic Foot???  majikten@... | 04/30/07
1997 and 1998  voska | 04/30/07
Nope, it was 1992  georgeou | 04/30/07
Agreed  Dr. John | 04/30/07
1992 Sounds right  cmahon@... | 05/03/07
me thinkest your brain is in limbo  cmeisner@... | 04/30/07
I guess I'm not the only one smoking...  robertm@... | 05/01/07
smoke 'em if you got e'm.  shraven | 05/01/07
ONE DOLLAR A MEG  EREITZ@... | 05/01/07
FWIW,  JetJaguar | 05/01/07
Uhhh... no... not even close.  James T. Kirk | 05/02/07
Hardware Raid?  matt.hickman@... | 04/30/07
Depends on the controller  topry@... | 04/30/07
Reread the article  M.R. Kennedy | 04/30/07
Yup, that's the KILLER controller for RAID  georgeou | 04/30/07
So which Mobo?  osreinstall | 04/30/07
Says it has ICH8R  georgeou | 04/30/07
I wasn't clear enough. I was referring to the DS3 in that sentence.  osreinstall | 04/30/07
Oh, sorry, misunderstood. I'd go with either the MSI or Intel  georgeou | 04/30/07
Memory type and Video card.?  osreinstall | 05/01/07
I don't worry about those memory latency specs  georgeou | 05/01/07
Ok, what video card do you run?  osreinstall | 05/01/07
I use an older ATI X800  georgeou | 05/01/07
Looks like it is NVidia then.  osreinstall | 05/01/07
It only gets better  NeutralityNow | 04/30/07
Good old days...  NetArch. | 04/30/07
1993  nelson.oles@... | 05/01/07
Drive size  Ron406 | 04/30/07
Solid gold...to make you feel old!  M.R. Kennedy | 04/30/07
Solid Gold  Ron406 | 04/30/07
I had one of those  voska | 04/30/07
Moon Landing  Ron406 | 05/01/07
I stopped counting  M.R. Kennedy | 04/30/07
I stopped Counting  Ron406 | 05/01/07
Spending OPM  M.R. Kennedy | 05/01/07
Spending OPM  Ron406 | 05/02/07
Now I don't feel so bad...  Mercutio_Viz | 04/30/07
Moore's Law surpassed.  p_msac@... | 04/30/07
Yeah, but it cost a fortune  georgeou | 04/30/07
Good old times happy  p_msac@... | 04/30/07
I have a feeling the wives out their will want to kill me over this  georgeou | 04/30/07
My feeling exactly ...  p_msac@... | 04/30/07
From what I've seen, the ICH8R is king  georgeou | 04/30/07
If you give a mouse a cookie...  muzhik | 05/01/07
while you're at it,  JetJaguar | 05/01/07
I mean...  JetJaguar | 05/01/07
he-he, sorry, need to post death by wife warnings from now on  georgeou | 05/01/07
Try $699 for 20 megabytes  Grok451 | 04/30/07
Disk cost reduction & capacity growth  djhs@... | 04/30/07
And IBM still uses the termDASD  nucrash | 04/30/07
Nahh no fork truck  Freebird54 | 04/30/07
Missed something  dhammond@... | 04/30/07
People wondered what you need 1 GB for  georgeou | 04/30/07
2.5 TB of storage  JGehrken | 04/30/07
Think cleaner  georgeou | 04/30/07
That's a lot of pirating  nucrash | 04/30/07
Most of my storage goes to my HDV cam  georgeou | 04/30/07
Disney on BluRay?  nucrash | 05/01/07
That doesn't answer the question  voska | 04/30/07
It's got hardware redundancy  georgeou | 04/30/07
Amen  Sabz5150 | 05/01/07
There was a time...  nucrash | 05/01/07
You should hear the CEO of Seagate  georgeou | 05/01/07
Oldest profession in the world.  shraven | 05/02/07
Back in the old days  Imaginos1892 | 04/30/07
aaaaah...  David_W | 04/30/07
1,000,000 : 1  rloew@... | 04/30/07
My first hard drive  Dr. John | 04/30/07
Just thought of something  Dr. John | 04/30/07
Yup, early 1992.  georgeou | 04/30/07
I feel young  nucrash | 04/30/07
watch the temp of the hard drives  ShoreLeave | 04/30/07
1985 - 330mb ESDI $1500  Pyrotech | 04/30/07
You sure it was 1985?  georgeou | 04/30/07
33mb?  jjarman | 04/30/07
Problem with raid 5  Been_Done_Before | 04/30/07
VIDEO SERVER  pepeneto01@... | 04/30/07
Any of these systems will work 24x7  georgeou | 04/30/07
Thank you for Info  Sam Jaeger | 04/30/07
Great, I'll have more on RAID performance  georgeou | 04/30/07
Will you test and give performance specs?  DrMicro | 05/01/07
Would be interesting to test vs. ZFS  dstrom | 05/01/07
Why buy 1 when you can get 2 at twice the price?  muzhik | 05/01/07
Thank you for Info  tom@... | 05/15/07
Riad Drive Failure  knudson | 04/30/07
Questions  knudson | 04/30/07
Most higher end Intel 965 mobos have 6 SATA ports  georgeou | 04/30/07
I got a very similar WD drive for $150 after rebate in February...  Jeff Hayes | 04/30/07
I kind of like someone who backs up their claims with a hard warrantee  georgeou | 04/30/07
WD RE editions also have a good warranty.  DrMicro | 05/01/07
My first upgrade.  rlowery@... | 04/30/07
500 GB RAID 1...$240  aulax@... | 05/01/07
I remember when...  jwm5150@... | 05/01/07
AMS 5-in-3 not available?  pklammer | 05/01/07
Might be quality issues, I'm tracking this down now  georgeou | 05/01/07
try $800 for 5MB hard disk, used  Wm.Franklin | 05/02/07
No Rush...  Information_z | 05/02/07
REAL WORLD IT for George means BUY ONLY Microsoft Warez!!!!  nomorems | 05/04/07
$150 MB for $1,500 in early days  lmb@... | 05/08/07
I must be getting old.....  skykingoh | 05/08/07
This is good news  maldoror | 05/13/07
This is good news  maldoror | 05/13/07
500gb price?  hologram@... | 05/15/07
Yes the price of storage keeps getting cheaper  japeters | 06/15/07

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