[Tfug] In need of hard drive info)

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 01:31:15PM -0700, Harry McGregor wrote:
> Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 03:16:09PM -0800, keith smith wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> I need to add a second drive to two of my boxes for back up purposes only.  I was looking on NewEgg and found prices have dropped more than I would have ever imagined.  
> 
> >> I know the original question has now been solved, but what I didn't see
> >> mentioned really is a home-made SAN or a prebuilt SAN as your backup
> >> method.
> 
> Are you looking at a SAN (block level) or NAS (File level) network storage?
> 
> Linux has a reasonable iSCSI stack (open-iscsi.org) that could provide
> you with block level storage, though unless you have a really solid lan,
> I would not recommend it.
> 
> Otherwise, I would look at NAS storage with Samba as your back end.

Whatever is best for a home setup for backup / rare usage (Parallels
machines I infrequently need) for 2 OS X boxes and 1 Linux box.  Cheap
is good too (ie stick it in my desktop if there's enough airflow).

-- 
Tom Rini