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December 8, 2005
Buying NAS this time instead of building
What a difference a year makes. Not so long ago, I built a 1.8TB RAID upgrade (to an existing server) for $1,712. This did not include the OS, chassis, motherboard, etc. which you had to put the raid enclosure in. Today I bought a 2TB plug and play system from LACIE: LaCie - Ethernet Disk - Gigabit Ethernet interface for $1999. Rack, chassis, OS, disks, etc. Now I don't believe it is hardware RAID, i believe you can set up software using Windows Server, but it is fully plug and play on gigE or USB 2.0. Very cool and no blood required!
Posted by Martin at December 8, 2005 8:55 PM
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I remember reading your description about building your drive when I was looking around. I've since become a big proponent of the infrant box, which is hardware RAID, gigabit, and quite small.
The newer version even supports growable RAID.
infrant.com
Posted by: whatisee 
at December 19, 2005 5:42 PM
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