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Originally Posted by sailor
Haha, I looked at doing that, but realized I didnt need to put that much heat into the house. Heck, in addition to the power that thing would draw, the AC would have to ramp up to counteract the heat, and my power bill would be through the roof. Figured I'd do better to buy a couple 250 gig drives.
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Similar situation at my home. I can still have wet dreams about RAID enclosures but these damn boxes mean I'm first on the block to pay for AC.
So I limit my home arrays to four drives. Fairly efficient RAID 5 utilization and it fits in skanky old mid-towers with the serving OS (still <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">fbsd</a>). If I run out of space, it's time to think about the next iteration. Honestly, I've run two at a time for a couple years: One for media that powers up on demand and another for everything else that's always up.
Now with everything on Gb enet I'm considering expanding the main server RAID (cutting other boxes to single drives) and burying the thing in my house's crawlspace. Moving the heat & noise of 15+ drives, as many fans, and the AC seems to make sense if I can keep out the creepy crawleys.
Pay no attention to the strange sounds emanating from beneath that house. A geek dwells therein.