Re: Re: WHS Tips

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, November 16, 2007 4:39 pm, Jamie Bennett wrote:
> WOW, 5TB of storage! I get funny looks when I say I have 3TB of
storage
> (400ish DVD's) and thats spread over 3 computers! I really need to buy
> more but the cheapest I've seen the WD 1TB drives is a whopping
174.99!

Yeah ... bought four of the WDs from Novatech last weekend for close on
£800. Really need to go get another two more otherwise I'm going to
have
to carry over some drives from the "old" server. :-(

> One drawback of the Mini-Itx board I am using is the lack of sata
> connectors. I have a 2 port sata pci card in there but I would like to
> find a 4 port one if anyone has any recommendations. I've found some
on
> amazon but theres not much detail on them which worries me.

I bought 3 x four channel PCI to SATA cards from LinITX for about £14
each
IIRC...

Phil