25 Year of Windows

[Lamnidae]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

I have it on my phone

Droid?

[Particle Man]

iPhone.

[Lamnidae]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

iPhone.

fffffuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!! how did I miss that!

[goof2]

I played with a couple of computers running early versions of DOS and had an Apple IIc at home when I was young. Except for a few encounters with Mac Classics I didn't really mess with computers again until college and Windows 3.1.

Gas, $1 per meg for hard drives wasn't great but I also remember $50 per kb for RAM. I knew a guy freshman year who sold weed to make enough so he could add 16k of RAM to his computer. Living in the engineering dorm was "different".

[Papa_Complex]

And now you can buy an "eco" 2TB hard drive for around $80.00. I'll be buying a RAID-5 NAS enclosure and populating it with those drives to give me a total of 6TB of fail safe backup space, for the storage of my photographs.

[Lamnidae]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

And now you can buy an "eco" 2TB hard drive for around $80.00. I'll be buying a RAID-5 NAS enclosure and populating it with those drives to give me a total of 6TB of fail safe backup space, for the storage of my photographs.

Check the Netgear ReadyNAS series, they've got an interesting way they handle RAID (similar to a NetApp device if you've used 'em before) they're calling X-RAID (and X-RAID2).


Shell for a 6 bay pedestal (on the pro line) is about ~1k and allows for NIC teaming/bridging. Western Digital's got some inexpensive 1.5T Enterprise drives for ~180 on NewEgg too right now.


The 12 shell 2U runs ~5k though.....

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Amblyopic

Check the Netgear ReadyNAS series, they've got an interesting way they handle RAID (similar to a NetApp device if you've used 'em before) they're calling X-RAID (and X-RAID2).


Shell for a 6 bay pedestal (on the pro line) is about ~1k and allows for NIC teaming/bridging. Western Digital's got some inexpensive 1.5T Enterprise drives for ~180 on NewEgg too right now.


The 12 shell 2U runs ~5k though.....

Actually I'm looking at a lower performance solution by Synology. I don't need big performance or the ability to hot swap, and the Synology product has some excellent features.

http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS411j/index.php

I'm already using one of their 2-disk boxes.

[LeeNetworX]

First MS DOS I used was 3.x.

First OS I ever used regularly was CP/M on an Osborne 'luggable' suitcase computer like this one. That was around '82 - '83.

[Lamnidae]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Actually I'm looking at a lower performance solution by Synology. I don't need big performance or the ability to hot swap, and the Synology product has some excellent features.

http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS411j/index.php

I'm already using one of their 2-disk boxes.

how is the 2 disk chassis?

[Avatard]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

And now you can buy an "eco" 2TB hard drive for around $80.00. I'll be buying a RAID-5 NAS enclosure and populating it with those drives to give me a total of 6TB of fail safe backup space, for the storage of my photographs.

NAS? DROBO! That's what you want.

A buddy of mine has one, it's the shit.