On 29 December 2011 16:17, Herbert Graf wrote: > I'm not familiar enough with what kind of hardware you need to support > what you're doing (I'm not in IT), but based on similar things I've > seen, you're looking at least $10k. The drives and their housing alone > will probably use a good amount of that budget (please, don't consider > consumer drives, they are not suitable for the usage you have planned). You'd be surprised - I've seen rack fulls of "consumer" drives at a well known storage company. If you keep them cool they'll be fine. Your RAID should have hot spares tho= ugh. --=20 Martin K. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .