Texsox Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Thoughts? I'm thinking that portability will not be much of an issue, so a powered one will be fine. It will be primarily a backup, but perhaps I'd store some extra music and pictures in it that I do not need 24/7 access to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsideirish71 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 (edited) QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 14, 2007 -> 11:19 PM) Thoughts? I'm thinking that portability will not be much of an issue, so a powered one will be fine. It will be primarily a backup, but perhaps I'd store some extra music and pictures in it that I do not need 24/7 access to. Its pretty much a commodity at this point. Depending on your intake, you can look at 500Gig for near 100 dollars. The unit I picked up a little bit ago was a 500Gig Buffalo Linkstation. You can try online searches or Fry's. 500 Gig USB Hard Drives Things to look for, SATA over PATA. 16mb cache. Edited December 15, 2007 by southsideirish71 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3E8 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 320GB for $70 great deal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Controlled Chaos Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 (edited) http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?...338540894115504 This was a slickdeal Tex, but it went out of stock fast. Maybe you can find a local one that has it in stock...I'm not sure if they'll honor their online price though. EDIT: BACK IN STOCK>>>HURRY IF YOU WANT IT Edited December 20, 2007 by Controlled Chaos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapkomet Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Dec 15, 2007 -> 05:28 AM) Its pretty much a commodity at this point. Depending on your intake, you can look at 500Gig for near 100 dollars. The unit I picked up a little bit ago was a 500Gig Buffalo Linkstation. You can try online searches or Fry's. 500 Gig USB Hard Drives Things to look for, SATA over PATA. 16mb cache. Hey southside, where can you get SCSI drives cheap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted December 20, 2007 Author Share Posted December 20, 2007 QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Dec 20, 2007 -> 09:50 AM) http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?...338540894115504 This was a slickdeal Tex, but it went out of stock fast. Maybe you can find a local one that has it in stock...I'm not sure if they'll honor their online price though. EDIT: BACK IN STOCK>>>HURRY IF YOU WANT IT Thank you, got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsideirish71 Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 20, 2007 -> 10:14 AM) Hey southside, where can you get SCSI drives cheap? This is a hard find. SCSI always is a much higher price. We run Dell for all of our server based equipment. In warranty we keep with Dell, when it goes out of warranty we just google and see who has the best price that week. We see if we can get a Seagate, Hitachi, or Western Digital for cheap. Tiger direct, Tech for Less, are some places to look. Even with SAS drives out, SCSI is still expensive. Try to avoid the refurbished drives. That is just asking for trouble. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...s=scsi&mnf= http://review.zdnet.com/hard-drives/hard-d...lShoppingView=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapkomet Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 I'll need to get some SCSI drives. I just picked up a "new" (used) server that I will probably co-locate... if it's good when I get it up, it's probably the new home for ST. If it's a dog, it's part fodder for e-bay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Controlled Chaos Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 20, 2007 -> 01:36 PM) Thank you, got it. Good for you...it's back up to 128 now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 14, 2007 -> 11:19 PM) Thoughts? I'm thinking that portability will not be much of an issue, so a powered one will be fine. It will be primarily a backup, but perhaps I'd store some extra music and pictures in it that I do not need 24/7 access to. I got a 200 gig portable for cheap as hell on the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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