harddisk storage

[Dave Halliday]

Only problem here is that the cheap Ethernet cards depend on your computer
running a driver to work.  The cheap IDE drives depend on your computer
running a driver to work.  Putting a driverless NIC in a box with a
driverless IDE drive is not going to work and you will need a *lot* more
than just a couple chips worth of glue logic to make it work.

You will have to maintain a TCP/IP stack, have CMOS ( or NV ) RAM to store
your IP addresses and settings, have some extra memory for buffering the
flow of data to the hd, a fairly fast CPU to take care of everything.

Plus, everybody thinks this is a cool idea and not that many manufacturers
are doing this so you get caught by the 'ole economy of scale thing...

I have seen them for a couple hundred bucks ( forget where though ) but they
are still more than double the retail price of the two components.



-----Original Message-----
From: Bjorn Julin [mailto:bnillson at hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 5:18 PM
To: proteus at ugwarehouse.org; augustopinoche at hotmail.com
Cc: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
Subject: Re: harddisk storage


Thank you for your information ,buuuut,
"waaaaaahhhhooooo" 2000usd is "not" cheap.

Im talking about "dead" cheap, extreamly deadly cheap,
as cheap as in "common available PC add on things",
like ethernet cards for a dollar,HD for a 120USD bucks etc etc .

Cheap is the word of the day!

regards from cheapo
AP

>From: The Proteus <proteus at ugwarehouse.org>

>	Both Maxtor and Quantum have 100Base-T RAID servers available for
>cheap now. They're usually under $2000 for 40GB implementations. Quantum's
>is called the "Snap" server, and the Maxtor is called the MaxAttach
>product. I'm sure there are others, but these are the big two I've seen.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>The Proteus
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>On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Augusto Pinoche wrote:
>
> > H on you folks!
> >
> > Does anyone of the folks know
> > if there is any Harddisk storage units
> > that has a 100Mbit eternet interface?
> >
> > Im trying to find a simple cost effective
> > diy HD backup solution for my lappitoppi
> > crappi computer!
> >
> > I refuse to buy any USB ZIP storage units for many
> > bucks.No im not interested i the wire with fire
> > since its expencive,no drivers, no chep interface etc.
> > No paralell port crap either.
> >
> > Im not into having a "BIG" bulky computer with a ethernet
> > interface for storage, im looking for somthing like PCMCIA
> > (PC Card)100Mb ethernet interface and a simple stand
> > alone HD whit a 100Mb Eth,interfacet.
> >
> > Why has not anyone done this yet, its a
> > interesting mobile storage solution....
> >
> > AP
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