[Eug-lug] network attached storage for home use

John Sechrest sechrest at jas.peak.org
Tue Nov 6 18:20:52 PST 2007


This is good info. adding to the concrete numbers, My experience is that each
computer that I have running at home seems to take $5/month just in power 
to keep it going. To get the redundancy of S3, you need at least $10/month.






"Ben Barrett" <stircrazyben at gmail.com> writes:

 % $0.15 x 100 GB = $15/month (plus another $10 to upload)
 % $0.15 x 500 GB = $75/month (plus another $50 to upload)

 % As of this writing, a 500GB external drive can be had for $135-$150 easily:
 % http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150414+4803+131021357&name=400GB+-+750GB


 



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