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Jeffrey J. Kosowsky escribió:
> Rob Owens wrote at about 11:57:01 -0400 on Monday, October 27, 2008:
> > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> > > What is the alternative if you don't have room on your server and if
> > > you can't "afford" something fancier than a SAN?
> > > For me, using NAS is very economical given the cost of drives and the
> > > existence of cheap embedded Linux NAS devices. Maybe I am missing an
> > > easy better alternative.
> > >
> > I'm not sure what a NAS costs these days, but my BackupPC server is a
> > white box desktop-class machine with SATA drives in software RAID 1. It
> > cost me $600. It runs the server software and stores the backups locally.
> >
> > You can keep it cheap by using a mini/micro ATX motherboard -- they've
> > usually got onboard video and onboard LAN, and you're not likely to need
> > much in the way of PCI slots. Just make sure the motherboard has plenty
> > of room for expansion in terms of RAM and hard disks.
> >
>
> Well I bought a dns-323 for about $130 and got 2 1-TB Seagate drives
> for $149 each. So under $450 for a 1TB of RAID-1 backup.
> Also it uses only a few watts of power (and even less when the disks
> power down since I mount root off of a small surplus usb stick).
> Also the dns-323 is extremely well built (metal, solid, not platic)
> and small - not much bigger than the 2 drives themselves side-to-side)
>
> But I agree that one could do well also by going the white box way...
>
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