[Leaplist] Backup to external USB md RAID 1/5?

[Mark W. Alexander]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:39:22AM -0400, Jason Boxman wrote:
> My true goal is simply to reduce footprint.  However, I happen to have all
> these existing systems.  Other than physical size, they all work fine.  I
> can't afford to replace them with a bunch of MicroATX based systems today,
> since that'll probably cost more than $0.
> 
> In the future, once the equipment is sufficiently old to justify
> replacement, I think I favor the Micro-ATX mainboards and cube cases.

I went through this during my move to VA. I had a tower for a firewall, a tower
for a file server, towers for desktops and, of course, a garage full of tower
parts.

Now that I'm (almost... no really. any day now ;) settled: 1 "slim" desktop for
my daughters school, 2 NSLU2's for file server/media server/backups, WRTG's
for firewall and WDS and laptops for general use. At <$100 a node to replace
the towers with almost 0 ethernet cabling and system noise and everything
available anywhere in the house I'll never buy another tower.


mwa
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