On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > At $99 you'll have $396 of drives in your backup server. Add the cost > of a case ($50), PSU ($30), mobo ($80), CPU ($100), DIMMs ($30), optical > drive ($20), did I omit anything? You're now at around $700. > FWIW, I put together a system using a bare bones Atom based box with two 2TB drives (one a WD20EARS and the other a Seagate LP drive) for a total cost of $372. It has no optical drive since I used that space for the second disk. (Not sure why I'd need an optical drive anyway.) The drives are cheaper now and the system could probably be built for a bit more than $300. The only shortcoming is that there is no space for additional drives. As a bonus, the system supports wake on lan well so I can bring it up, backup and then shut it down. In the long run I'm not sure that's better for the drives than continuous operation, but this is colocated at my son;s place (for off site backup) and part of the deal was to minimize impact on his electric bill. When running and active, it uses 35W measured at the plug. When inactive, that drops to about 20W. best, hank -- '03 BMW F650CS - hers '98 Dakar K12RS - "BABY K" grew up. '93 R100R w/ Velorex 700 (MBD starts...) '95 Miata - "OUR LC" polish visor: apply squashed bugs, rinse, repeat Beautiful Sunny Winfield, Illinois -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
