Wanted: Old pc's with reasonable hard disk space

[Ste]

anyone know somewhere cheap to get old boxes with reasonable amounts of disk space in em?

I just need to be able to network them up cos this pc is full

[G]

How old, how much disk space?

[Ste]

any age, as much disk as poss

[Demonic69]

Just buy a PCI ATA controller and a fuck-off big HD
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[G]

Yea... you can get 'em for £25 for a Raid 0,1 or less for no Raid.

I'm intending to put one in a pc as a server... so with 8 HDs in total of varying sizes.

If you want computers, I got em... yours for the taking <233MHz ish.
If you want faster I got a couple of 400MHz lying around in various states of working .. though I would want something for those.

[Korn]

[Ste]

Korn: wtf have u managed to fll 480gigs worth with!! That takes some doing

G: wot disks have the <233mhz got in em?

[Doddmaster]

[Demonic69]

I wouldn't bother with RAID on an IDE Array.
If you want some decent storage get a NAS like a Snapserver.
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[Ste]

Yeah, but 480 gigs of stuff.

/me points korn at dvd burners

[Demonic69]

[zaknafien]

/me points to copious amount of pr0n CD's stacked in the corner.

Korns got nothing on me
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[G]

We have 5x80gb in a Raid 5 array at work (4 in array + 1 failover)... and IMO it's loads better than other similarly priced options. It's dfefinatley a lot faster than a SCSI soloution at a similar price (128mb cache helps )

The only prob is a Hardware RAID 5 card (go for the promise, 'cos it has 6 channels while the Adaptec has 4) is that it's £300 ish for the card.

I was actually thinking along the lines of this the other night:
6x120gb drives + Raid 5 card= 6x£100+£300=£900
Which gives 600gb Useable space

While
8x120gb + 2 x Raid 0,1 cards=8x£100 + 2 x 25= £850
Which would give you 480Gb in a Raid 10 array
However it would be much easier to start small with this configuration and it has a lot more redundany.

You can always consider Software Raid courtesy of M$ ... (need server for Raid 5 I believe... not sure of how good it really is) I wouldn't be suprised if it actually slowed the transfer rate down, but that's not always an issue.

I wasn't aware you can just add disks to a RAID 5 array.. none of the Dells we use it ley you do it AFAIK, and I don't think the promise card does... shall investigate if I got particularly bored at some point


And I'm sure we can workout what takes up all that space on Korn's hard discs

[Demonic69]

You have to reset the RAID array if you're adding disks as the parity disk needs to re-configure what's put in.
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[G]

Raid 5 uses striped Parity I believe... Raid 3 has a seperate disk... but yea, same thing.

[Demonic69]

Raid 5 uses 1 disk for parity. RAID 3 doesn't exist AFAIK
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[zaknafien]

[Demonic69]

Shaddap Fugly.
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[zaknafien]

Ta muchly
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[G]

RAID 5 uses 1 disks /worth/ of space for the parity, however this is striped accross all the disks. RAID 3 has one specific disk dedicated to the parity.

Can't be bothered to google .. but I'm, pretty sure that's the way it is.

RAID 3 /does/ exist, it's little used... there's pretty much all the RAID numbers between 0-10 that have been created by one company or another... of the minor ones 3 is more well known.

[G]

googled:
https://www.recoverdata.com/raidfaq.htm

[Korn]

[G]

How cheap is 'uber cheap' then?

[Korn]

When he first told me about it he was knocking them out for £50!! I promptly adivsed him to double the price, silly twot.
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[G]

Go and tell him that prices have come down again £25 is reasonable now ... and I'll have 10

If anymore are availalble I might be interested.