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Originally Posted by otoc
A point on the old snapOS servers. They still make good redundant backup units for the Guardian units. Throwing 4 drives on a 2000 is a cheap solution, even at the expense of speed.
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Somewhat true, but only to a tipping point. If you are trying to do 3TB, 4TB, 20TB, you just can't do it at the sacrifice of speed. Calculate out how long it would take to backup and compare 4TB of data at the actual speeds you get from a 2000 or 4000. It just isn't practical. So as I said, yes, but only up to a point.
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Originally Posted by otoc
...4 2.5 SATA drives would fit in the standard housing (using commercial SATA/IDE adptrs) with power to spare from the stock PSU.
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As I mentioned in another message thread, 2.5" drives are not much help. Some, but not much, IMO.
2.5" drives are slower, they have a higher price, and are limited in size. Kind of defeats the purposes of why we want to convert in the first place. Yes, they can be had in larger sizes, but still limited and at a cost premium. See?
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Originally Posted by otoc
I'm not sure if this forum is proof of viability for your project, my friend. Sometimes you simply need to trust your gut and throw some out for sale. I'm assuming you will do it for yourself anyway?
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You may very well be right, but it is the only real central place for the Snap Servers and with over 1000 reads on the subject here with this little response, it is an indicator.
That, and for me, it was never really about marketing and/or profits. It was about solving a problem of high quality mass storage at a level the average home or small office user could find value with. A huge hole out there in my opinion. Not a market hole, but rather a black hole for users like many of us are.
Of course I will do this for myself. Duh! LOL. But much of this project has been making it so that the average person could do it too and to share with others (I was taught the golden rule). But if others are not interested, then why bother? Right? I have it solved 100% already for myself. That is a done deal. My recent and majority of effort has all be in simplification, drop in, for others.
Disclaimer on the last part: I live on a small income, it would shock most of you if you knew how low. I do refurbish and then sell units on eBay on occasion, but I am not a big eBay type or have it as a business. I only do it here and there and only to help a VERY LITTLE now and then with survival and pay for my equipments. I do not make much on it at all. Very very little.
Part of this project has been also so that I can use less expensive, higher performance, larger drives in these refurbished units I do now and then to make them more cost effective and valuable for the buyer. But in the end, there will still be very little money in it for me. I am not a business man, nor do I want to become one. Not that there is anything wrong with them, it's just not who I am.