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Right, seeing as now i use my linux box for nothing more than a fileserver for serving up mp3s and suchlike to my laptop, i've decided to scrap it and instead get a very, very bulky external harddrive to plug into my laptop through USB (don't think i have firewire). Can anyone reccomend any good places on the net to buy from, and any good models of high-capacity external harddrives? I know of www.komplett.ie but i think the biggest they have is 400gb. I'm looking to go for something like 800gb - 1TB. |
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lacie is nice |
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thats quite big. i have mp3s on an external firewire drive and it occasionally gets too hot and messes up a bit after playing music for a long time, I wish there was a way around it... |
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nice one, thank you! |
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I've an Olidata Harddrive (250 GB). I'm pleased with it. Honestly though, I wouldn't know what recommending. 800GB is something incredible anyway, I paid mine for 120 €, I wonder how much costs that one. |
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Just a thought, would it be better to split the capacity over 2 drives in case of damage or theft ? |
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at the moment, it's split over 3 drives - one 200gb and two 80gbs. i've thought about it. it's scary. i don't know. but yeh... if someone's gonna nick it, they'll nick 2.. |
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Yea i suppose when you look at the flip side, how cool would it be to have it all in one case! |
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Buy a network drive with RAID 5. I'm thinking about such a solution for my family office. |
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terabytes make me horny |
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200.. this has made my evening |
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yes, raid5 is preferred..... that's what i run in my server.... wouldn't sleep good at nights without it. |
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i was going to set up software raid on my linux server but never got around to it. any links, QRDL? something like that, with 800gb-1tb of storage would expensive though |
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start with 3x80gb disks.... in raid5..... buy another 80gb as soon as you can afford it. let the raid-array grow slowly.... stick to one brand/model. avoid western digital. |
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you will get a pretty cheap, flexible, incredible fast storage WITH redundancy... and still have a server which you may run other services on. |
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That's what I want to do. Get myself a lovely home fileserver setup. It'd be awesome. Think it'll have to wait until I move out of my parents first. That'll have to wait till the government stop raping me taxwise. |
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, while slightly offtopic, is something else I want to do. Looks awesome. |
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Yeah that's very interesting, I've done it with a friend of mine.. |
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female? |
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Hahaha |
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Yes, that would be expensive, because a network disk base with all the fancy hardware is generally a standalone computer. I thought that money was not the case when you mentioned that 1TB. If you want to avoid unnecessary spending, you should put a RAID controller into your present computer and create a RAID 5 array out of, let's say, 3 300GB disks. And yes, avoid that WD/Caviar garbage. |
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giginger: yep, funny u mentioned that, since im currently planning my new htpc-setup, right now as we speak. |
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I wouldn't mind seeing the outcome of that once you're done and hearing about any problems you encountered. If you don't mind of course? My current PC is good to last me for a while yet. It's not too slow for me at all and I'm really pleased with the build quality (I did it myself) so it's got at least 1/2 years left before I replace it. However, I want something TV centered and that HTPC looks the right way to go. |
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since the htpc is placed right in my livingroom, below my tv, noise is a concern.... so one of my primary goals is to build a very silent pc. pentium m (fan-less) / 1gb ddr / 6600gt (fan-less) / 160gb 2.5" hdd / origen x11 box (see pic) / dvd-writer / digital tv-tuner (hdtv support) / mce 2005 hooked up to my lan thru gigabit ethernet / access to my server's storage (music/movies/photos etc) perhaps i forgot something... wrote it down quickly from my head. |
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I do like that case. |
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Shit. Thats about as sexy as computers can come. The only improvement I could see is having the drive and the expansion slot on the side, so the front is one smooth surface with a label on the top left and the blue button on the bottom left. |
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how do i add more than 4 disks if i have only 4 IDE slots in my motherboard? is that what a RAID controller is for? |
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yes |
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suggestions where i could get a good one off the net? thanks for your insight into all of this by the way |
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redrum to get more than 4 harddrives, or ( if you're using two cd roms, and two hardrives ) you need a PCI card with some IDE cables on them. |
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