external storage for linux

[David Vincent]

Sean Carolan wrote:
> I'm not sure, but you might search around for one of these Terabyte NAS 
> devices that has two 500gb drives.  I know that there are some out there 
> that let you choose whether to do RAID1 or RAID0 when you set them up.

exactly what i am looking for.  although i'm leaning towards building my 
own as the high-end units cost too much (the warranty is only 3yrs on 
most of them) and the low-end units only give a one year warranty on the 
drive.  for $160 here i can get an ide 500gb drive to go into one of my 
external enclosures and that drive has a 5yr warranty.  hence my musing 
about doing raid-1 with two attached usb drives.

(i know i know, ide - ugh - but that's what my enclosure supports. 
eventually i'll upgrade to a sata one.)

> And yes, the kurobox is sweet - I use it for backups and serving media 
> files to Xbox media center, and for streaming music to the home network.

read my mind!  xbmc is a hungry beast isn't it!

;)

-d