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Originally Posted by BKeeper
I can get you a 1T usb/eSATA drive for $150, but thats not the point.
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But it could be the point!!! Is it really possible to find a decent eSATA 1TB drive for $150?
That might actually simplify things for me in the sense that I could put relatively stable bulk data on it and back up only occasionally. while not having to worry about a failure because I have the back up. I'd have to think more about what data goes where, but am definitely wondering about the price point. Last time I looked (this weekend) I didn't see anything that cheap. But it seems possible given some of the other special deals I've seen recently. (In fact, I think I even saw 1TB for $108, and 2TB USB MyBook for ~$380, but that's just off the top of my head, and when I actually went to look for it, I couldn't find it.)
Btw, for my purposes, I think RAID is probably the icing on the cake, not the meat. NAS is nice, but also only a fancy way of storing data that I don't really need (unless, like I hinted, it can be a background app running on a Ubuntu box that I have anyway).