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| RogerLacroix |
 Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:20 pm Post subject: Buffalo Terabyte Network Attached Storage - 1.0 TB |
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Jedi Knight
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All,
Ever since I saw this last week, I just can't stop drooling over it.  
It is a complete contact admin (Network Attached Storage) device with 4 * 250GB hard drives and 1GB Ethernet (10/100/1000).
http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=97&categoryid=19
You can setup it up as 4 * 250GB drives or 1TB spanned drive or 750GB under Raid 5.
A couple local retailers are carrying it and one has it for $1199 CDN ($940 USD).
I am seriously thinking of getting one this week. Hummm, a 1TB storage device for my small office, I like the sounds of it. Besides, why backup to tape or CD or DVD when you can backup to a disk array with Raid 5. Cool.
Anybody purchase one of these yet?
Of course, I won't even bring up the idea of how many MP3 files or movies can be stored on this device.
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Roger Lacroix
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| PeterPotkay |
| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:24 pm Post subject: Re: Buffalo Terabyte Network Attached Storage - 1.0 TB |
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| RogerLacroix wrote: |
| Besides, why backup to tape or CD or DVD when you can backup to a disk array with Raid 5. Cool. |
What if your office has a fire or floods?
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
Yes, I was a little too gung ho. Yes, I would continue with my DVD backups and offsite storage.
What can I say, I'm a geek or a kid in a candy store!!
I recently bought 3 refurnished servers:
- Sun SPARC with Solaris 9
- IBM AIX 5L with 5.3
- HPUX with 11.11
These will all have WMQ v6.0 installed on them. I've built a dual CPU x86 box for Linux (just missing RAM) and I need another dual CPU box for Windows 2003. Dell has some excellent specials right now for dual Xeon CPU servers for small business. So, I giving it some serious thought.
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| wschutz |
| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:38 am Post subject: |
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where do you keep the zSeries? 
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| vennela |
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:26 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
Yes, my 'zSeries' is / will be at IBM. I have been so, so busy that I have not finished the sign up process. Last week I completed upgrades to all 5 products with MQAUSX having a major update. (The LDAP work put me way behind schedule.) Now I need to catch my breath and begin the next round of development / porting to z/OS and z/Linux for MQSSX and MQAUSX.
Somehow I need to finish my raised floor computer room. Right now it looks like a jungle. Plus I have a customer who is gently pushing me to port MQAUSX to iSeries. I've never worked on one, good lord, another OS to learn.  That one is only on the wish list. 
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| Michael Dag |
| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:50 am Post subject: |
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
Are you referring to 'Windows Services for UNIX'? Because SFU allows users to run Unix scripts on Windows but I don't kow how this would help, say, my Solaris box.
Are you saying on a PC with SFU, make a mount point via SFU to the TeraStation, share the mount point then on Solaris mount the share? I think I would rather use the builtin ftp server.
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| Michael Dag |
| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| RogerLacroix wrote: |
| Are you saying on a PC with SFU, make a mount point via SFU to the TeraStation, share the mount point then on Solaris mount the share? |
yes SFU includes an NFS Server for Windows, So can share drives or even directories using NFS from Solaris or AIX. It has helped me a lot on my small solaris machine (only 9GB) to put files on my Windows box (with a lot bigger disk) and be able to use them/untar/install etc , ofcourse this is test machine....
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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All,
Well on Friday I bought a Buffalo TeraStation 1TB. I set it up as Raid 5 and added a couple of shares. It was easy to setup and it is pretty quiet.
So far, I am pleased with it.
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| hopsala |
| Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:01 am Post subject: |
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| What about some freehand hardware crash simulations? Pick up a hammer, a blowtorch and a magnet, and get to work! |
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| hopsala wrote: |
| What about some freehand hardware crash simulations? Pick up a hammer, a blowtorch and a magnet, and get to work! |
???
Seriously, you need a hobby or maybe a vacation.
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| hopsala |
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| Obviously, I already have hobbies - now you know what they are I did not mean to offend your Buffalo TeraStation, I apologize. |
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