I need about 1-2 gigs now... Surely DVD must be the best option for this amount. Take alternate DVD's to different locations. Take the first to work and leave it in your desk drawer. Take the second to your parents the next time you seem them etc... When you've exhausted all locations start from th...

I've got one of these... http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS101serise/index.php bought from here... http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=288370 It is fanless and has good power control over the harddisk so it is normally not spinning. For extra quietness, I've installed a ...

Ironically, The Inquirer is one of the few sites I've emailed about factual inaccuracies in their product previews/reviews. Each time, I get a stock reply along the lines of "this is the information I have from the technical guy and he is never wrong"

What about this: http://www.mashie.org/casemods/udat1.html If you would like an easy solution that is similar to this (and you could make do with only 3 hard disks) I would suggest one of these... http://www.itx-warehouse.co.uk/Product.aspx?ProductID=291 and one of these... http://www.scan.co.uk/Pr...

Not an enclosure, but an attempt at making them quieter:
http://www.siliconacoustics.com/noisema ... lator.html

For those wanting a quiet NAS, I would recommend one of these:
http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS ... /index.php

I have one containing a 2.5" drive mounted in foam. Very quiet (no internal fan) and faster than my 54Mb wireless network.

A floppy drive is much easier to strip than a HDD.

Does anyone know of a UK supplier for the No-Vibes 2.5" model as seen below? http://www.siliconacoustics.com/noisemagic-novibes-2-5-notebook-laptop-harddrive-isolator.html or http://www.noisemagic.de/pdf/novibes/de_2_5.pdf I'm considering either a "Western Digital Scorpio 100GB WD1000VE 2.5" 8MB Cac...

If you want RAID in a small box, I don't think you could beat this...
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23619
6 x 2.5" drives in a single 5.25" bay. I've just got to convince the better-half that I need 6 x 100GB disks

I would agree with steef. Mini-itx is hard to beat for a home NAS. Low power consumption, fanless, good variety of small cases, integrated network/video. The main advantage it has over an off-the-shelf NAS is the ability to run other applications. Mine gets used a lot as a download manager. I've wri...

I recently went through a similar process but with slightly different requirements. I have ended up with a Centrino based laptop with the Fujitsu MHT2060AT hard drive. I don't know if this has more platters than the 40GB version but it is very rare that I hear it. I do feel the heat from it though a...

For those running Windows, you are more than welcome to try my FTP synchronisation program. I wrote this when I couldn't find another program I liked. It can be downloaded from http://www.alock.net . It works by modifying the archive attribute of the local files to indicate it has been backed up so ...

Well meglamaniac, I've lost so many hard disks over the years I am very paranoid and probably go on and on and on and on about backup far too much. I'm sure I drive everyone I know mad :roll: When I shut down my PC, I run a script which performs a backup of my live data over my home LAN to a mini it...

Just a quick question... I'm not trying to start an argument, I'm genuinely interested in how you guys with several hundred GB's of storage actually backup your data. I know this thread is talking about providing redundancy from hardware failure, but RAID is not a backup. What happens if your PC is ...

Try these, they look good, are fairly cheap, and do not have little 40mm fans inside: With USB2 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=112589 With USB2&Firewire http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=127643 With USB2&Firewire SATA http://www.scan.co.uk/Produ...

If you are interested I can provide the source code to a program I wrote in Visual Basic to read the SMART information. It works fine for reading the temps for a PATA Seagate 7200.7. I wrote this to log the temps to a csv file so I could monitor how my server was performing whilst I wasn't there. An...

Or you could try this:

4 x 1Gb CF Card (£100 each) = £400
4 x CF->IDE adapters (£25 each) = £100
4 channel RAID card = £50

Total = £550 for a 4 disk 4GB RAID 0

(All prices in GBP, should be about $1000 or even cheaper with US prices)

The point I'm trying to make is only perform a backup that has value. The point Bomba made about not destroying your data is valid, not because it is too drastic, but because it is not drastic enough. For those of you at work/college/school when reading this. When you arrive home tonight, pretend on...

There will most likely be people who will disagree with this but... The most important aspect of a backup is that it is correctly backing up your data. You should therefore periodically test your backup. If you Ghost your C partition, try formatting it and restoring your image. If you have a RAID, s...

Sorry, if I didn't make it clear, the program is available at:

http://www.alock.net/download/HDDTemp.zip

I have only tried it with 80Gb and 120Gb Seagate PATA hard disks. I would be interested to know if it works with anyone else's drives.

I have recently consrtucted a quiet FTP server which has no fans in the case. My hard disk is mounted in a Zalman heat pipe cooler so I can only hear the hard disk with my head about 1 foot from the case. After playing around with DTemp, I became concerned about the maximum temperature of the drive ...