My page here, about my continuing quest to find a simple way to get monstrous storage at home, ends with a list of Network Attached Storage boxes that have the very-helpful-for-many-users disk sleep function.
If you'd like to see a more comprehensive list of NAS gadgets with and without sleep, check out this one here. Unfortunately, that list was last updated more than a year ago. Does anybody know an up-to-date list? Surely some dork dedicated enthusiast must be devoting his weekends to this pursuit?
18 November 2006 at 7:14 am
NAS does not amuse me. I'm looking at somewhat cheaper and somewhat bigger.. currently putting plans together for a PCI-X or PCI Express X4 based hardware raid 5 in the 2tb range.
Wish I could find good reviews on raid cards 8 (
19 November 2006 at 4:02 pm
How about using one of the current generation Athlon mobos with its in-built RAID5 and 6 x SATA slots? I'm building a similar machine for my boss now with 6 x 320Gb drives for a formatted capactity of around 1.5Tb. And you can certainly put in bigger (and much more expensive) drives. Just don't forget that Windows can't handle physical drives >2Tb. You could put together a box like that for under AU$2k plus drives, which is what you'll pay for similar sized RAID boxes without all the other attendant abilities of being a proper computer.