"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message
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En el artículo , John
Rumm escribió:

I seem to be sinking under a pile of spare hard drives at the moment -
typically 2.5" 500GB ones.

My immediate thought is that, by the time you've bought the hardware
needed to achieve this (caddies, etc. especially, as you mention them)
it would be cheaper to buy a few big drives. Buy just three and you can
do RAID5 (=fault tolerance).

Look for a cheap NAS on fleabay, or stick then in a cheap case. Use a
separate small drive or SSD for the OS, then you can upgrade/maintain
that without affecting the data on the RAIDed disks. I take them out of
my Microserver when doing OS upgrades, etc. so no "accident" can befall
them.

Tis true, a 4 bay case is more expensive than buying a larger drive.
I'm wondering whether to use an old PC, bung in my drives, get something
like this -
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-Port-SAT...AOSwSdZWd0r Z
maybe I could use FreeNAS.