Ebby
2004-07-29, 18:59
My Bro's drive died again. Another 250GB down the shit-can. :mad: His G5 chews through them faster than Cheetos at a LAN party. This time, it took with it a DVD he worked on for almost a year. I had a fairly recent backup by chance but he lost all his music and other files. That is it! I've had enough! I am sick of loosing drives and files. I can not back up every single file on every hard drive; there is just too much! (over 1.2TB!) So I'm looking into RAID. (RAID 5 specifically)
I found one for around $1,200 with some nice features (firewire 800, 400, USB2.0, 3x80GB drives for 220GB space).
That was the SureVault 800 from Kano. They also have a USB only model that looks interesting but if I recall USB takes a lot more processor power than firewire.
I also looked at Iomega's NAS P405u and that looked interesting. Instead of firewire or USB it has a Gigabit Ethernet and 2 10/100 ports, but I am unsure if it will work on a Mac.
Can anyone recommend any cheap RAID 5 storage? I know some of you here have some info. :p
Cool Stuff: I checked the warrantee on the drive and it is covered so what the heck, I cheked his last drive and it was still covered. :eek: Wow! Just for fun I checked the drive in my Beige G3 and... under warrantee which expires in 2 months! Checked my last failed drive and that too was under warrantee! I had 4 drives die, all Maxtor, all under warrantee, and all being replaced! It's gunna feel like christmas in a few weeks. :D
I found one for around $1,200 with some nice features (firewire 800, 400, USB2.0, 3x80GB drives for 220GB space).
That was the SureVault 800 from Kano. They also have a USB only model that looks interesting but if I recall USB takes a lot more processor power than firewire.
I also looked at Iomega's NAS P405u and that looked interesting. Instead of firewire or USB it has a Gigabit Ethernet and 2 10/100 ports, but I am unsure if it will work on a Mac.
Can anyone recommend any cheap RAID 5 storage? I know some of you here have some info. :p
Cool Stuff: I checked the warrantee on the drive and it is covered so what the heck, I cheked his last drive and it was still covered. :eek: Wow! Just for fun I checked the drive in my Beige G3 and... under warrantee which expires in 2 months! Checked my last failed drive and that too was under warrantee! I had 4 drives die, all Maxtor, all under warrantee, and all being replaced! It's gunna feel like christmas in a few weeks. :D