[bcab] Re: Network attached storage

I think you might be pushing your luck with 5 bays and a tight budget, most of 
the realistic home SOHO solutions have two bays at most.  Here are two examples 
of what is common at the lower end, the Lacie is more a business solution and a 
price tag to match.

Netgear:
http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/NetworkStorage/SC101.aspx?detail=Specifications

Dlink:
http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=509

Lacie:
http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=10876

Finally with hard drive prices what they are it may be more cost effective to 
ditch the old drives and get a NAS with two drive bundled eg. this one I saw on 
Novatech, 1TB at £225 it is quite reasonable:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NGR-SCT1T

Regards.

Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dj Paddy 
  To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:38 PM
  Subject: [bcab] Network attached storage


  Hey all,

  I've got a stack of IDE's here.  I'm not a hardware guy, I can and have 
  built systems but I don't find it the most fluid thing in the world.  I'll 
  stick RAM sticks in and PCI cardsDrives etc but I hate messing about with 
  jumpers!  I get all muddled up about primary slave and master and secondary 
  slave and master.

  I want to just plug the thing in and handle what I need to from the software 
  side.

  So I'm looking for some recommendations for a server drive storage unit.  I 
  want something that will house IDE's and maybe even SATTA2 but the latter 
  isn't completely necessary at the moment.

  I'd like it to hold at least 5 IDE's.

  I've heard of the Windows Home Server but I'm not sure if this is what I 
  want/need...  I'm also kinda on a  budget.

  Any thoughts? 

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