Do It Yourself NAS » Chassis http://www.diynas.com build your own network attached storage device Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:49:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage http://www.diynas.com/2009/12/06/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ http://www.diynas.com/2009/12/06/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:45:56 +0000 nick http://www.diynas.com/?p=60 Backblaze details how they build a 67 TB 4U storage server for less than $8,000. C0T0D0S0 then takes a look at some of the trade offs of the device against much more expensive systems.

]]> http://www.diynas.com/2009/12/06/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/feed/ 0 2.5 *terabyte* hot-swap storage — for $730 http://www.diynas.com/2007/05/10/25-terabyte-hot-swap-storage-%e2%80%94-for-730/ http://www.diynas.com/2007/05/10/25-terabyte-hot-swap-storage-%e2%80%94-for-730/#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 22:01:13 +0000 nick http://www.diynas.com/2007/05/10/25-terabyte-hot-swap-storage-%e2%80%94-for-730/ George Ou over at ZDNet.com has a blog post about adding a good chunk of storage to his computer. All that is needed to duplicate this is 3 free drive bays, 5 free SATA ports, and a power supply that can handle the extra 150 watts while the drives spin up.

Fast forward 15 years later, and I just bought 2.5 terabytes of hot-swappable SATA-300 storage for just under $730.

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