Digital BW, The Print

Or drives from http://www.ximeta.com/. These are individual drives, but you can
"gang" them together if you want raid. This way you can start small and build
your array.

-Stephen
 www.sbillard.org/Stephen


> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On 
> Behalf Of Steve and Ann Taylor
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 8:07 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] External hard drives
> 
> 
> You might want to consider an NAS system like the Buffalo Technology  
> TerraStation.
> See 
> http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=97
> I just got one for about $750 which is more than the single 
> drives you are  
> looking at. The advantage is that this unit has 4 ea. of 250G 
> drives which  
> if you configure as Raid 5 you end up with 750G of safe 
> storage. You can  
> also access it from any computer on your network, if you have 
> more than  
> one. Set up properly it can also be accessed from the 
> internet. The main  
> disadvantage, other than cost, is that it is slower than a directly  
> attached ecternal drive. It is great for backuping up your 
> data but not  
> for working on that data directly on the NAS system.
> 
> Steve Taylor
> 
>