[mythtv-users] NAS power supply

[jedi]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:31:14PM -0400, Matt Emmott wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Fri, October 10, 2008 10:02 am, John Drescher wrote:
> > >> Check out the 1.5TB drives at newegg.
> > >>
> > > Wow they finally have them. Thanks.
> > > Seagate 7200.11
> > > 750GB   @ $109
> > > 1000GB @ $129
> > > 1500GB @ $189
> >
> > Actually not a bad deal - price / GB is nearly linear....
> >
> > Gotta love it.  I ordered 3 of the 1TB drives - not realizing they had 1.5
> > TB drives.  The case I have will take 20 SATA drives - maybe the next
> > batch will be 1.5 TB and I'll move the 1TB drives to my 6 drive RAID-6
> > array and replace the 400 GB drives there....
> >
> > Gotta love it.  I have more storage than a large data center did a few
> > years ago....
> >
> > --Yan
> >
> >
> Those prices seem high. I was looking on geeks.com and Pricewatch and prices
> seemed quite a bit cheaper, I seem to remember 750GB for around 80 bucks.
> These may have lesser warranties but if you're doing RAID 6 it might be
> worth the gamble.

    I dunno. I would scrutinize those VERY carefully. I've seen what looked
like good deals on drives online and once you get all the details it doesn't
look so good anymore. I've seen that on pricewatch. Don't recall the details,
just the dissapointment. '-)