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[the alarming man]

i need to buy one for work as anyone got any recommendations 500 gb-1 tb should be big enough

[Kevin Wood]

Have a good shop around. Hard drive prices are high at the moment due to the fact that a couple of major production facilities are under water.

I've recently bought 2 NAS boxes just to gut them for the hard drives. £109 for a 2TB NAS box when I couldn't find a 1TB bare drive for that price at the time.

http://www.ebuyer.com/283921-zyxel-nsa310-2tb-1x-2tb-nas-drive-91-016-007009b

[Weds]

Maplins had some deals. I bought a 2tb USB for about £80 which was cheaper than their 1tb, as Kevin said HD prices are very high at the moment..

[Plomien]

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/default.php?cat=5&type=5006&man=0&filterwords=&go=SEARCH&comp=
have a look here

[VXL V6]

Have a good shop around. Hard drive prices are high at the moment due to the fact that a couple of major production facilities are under water.

I've recently bought 2 NAS boxes just to gut them for the hard drives. £109 for a 2TB NAS box when I couldn't find a 1TB bare drive for that price at the time.

http://www.ebuyer.com/283921-zyxel-nsa310-2tb-1x-2tb-nas-drive-91-016-007009b

You don't want to sell me the NAS enclosure do you?

[Kevin Wood]

You don't want to sell me the NAS enclosure do you?

I'm not sure if we have plans for them or not at the moment, but will bear you in mind.

They contain(ed) WD caviar green WD20EARS drives, by the way.

[VXL V6]

You don't want to sell me the NAS enclosure do you?

I'm not sure if we have plans for them or not at the moment, but will bear you in mind.

They contain(ed) WD caviar green WD20EARS drives, by the way.

Cheers Kevin

I have 4 x 500Gb 7200 Seagate ST9500530NS SATA discs sitting here which I would like to use in some sort of NAS enclosure, ideally at least two drives in the same enclosure for RAID1. Would happily get a rackmount enclosure (Mrs VXL V6 is most impressed having a 19" rack in the house, honest!) to take all four if I could find one cheap!

[Entwood]

I've just purchased one of these to go in my "backup" enclosure ... as the present one is now at 80% !!

http://www.ebuyer.com/237908-samsung-hd204ui-spinpoint-f4-2tb-hard-drive-sata-5400rpm-32mb-cache-hd204ui

Seems a decent price for 2TB, and I'm limited by a SATA II requirement.

[Martian]

I have 4 x 500Gb 7200 Seagate ST9500530NS SATA discs sitting here which I would like to use in some sort of NAS enclosure, ideally at least two drives in the same enclosure for RAID1. Would happily get a rackmount enclosure (Mrs VXL V6 is most impressed having a 19" rack in the house, honest!) to take all four if I could find one cheap!

I use an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ enclosure with the drives (4x 2 TB) configured in X-RAID (Expandable RAID 5) which gives me 6TB of usable storage with a fair amount of redundancy.
Two drives would need to fail simultaneously for data loss to occur, the drives are hot swappable, and the enclosure can also be an FTP Server, Web Server, Print Server, Torrent Client, Media Streamer (DLNA compliant), yada, yada, yada.....all in an enclosure not much bigger than the 4 drives themselves.
Power consumption is only 58W when the box is being thrashed to the limit, but normally sits around 45W in normal use so no concerns over how much it cost to leave on 24/7.

[Kevin Wood]

Cheers Kevin

I have 4 x 500Gb 7200 Seagate ST9500530NS SATA discs sitting here which I would like to use in some sort of NAS enclosure, ideally at least two drives in the same enclosure for RAID1. Would happily get a rackmount enclosure (Mrs VXL V6 is most impressed having a 19" rack in the house, honest!) to take all four if I could find one cheap!

These will actually do RAID 1 but only hold a single drive. They have a SATA connector that can be used to add a second external drive.