[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“INQ readers were quick to flood my mailbox with comments and
recommendations on how to put a terabyte of disk storage on-line as
I discussed last week. The benchmark I set was for close to one
terabyte of storage in about the form factor the size of a toaster,
using relatively simple off-the-shelf gear. To be precise, I
proposed spending around $600 list for a pair of Seagate Barracuda
7200.8 400GB drives and putting them into a NetGear SC101 storage
central enclosure.“Most people who chimed in complained that the NetGear box
didn’t support anything other than Windows–I don’t find this to be
a tragic big deal since if you’re running Linux, you can find
yourself a way to rig up a RAID array with a suitable distro on a
spare server…”