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SFF DR Box
As an alernative to a tape based offsite backup system , we are looking to build 2 portable NAS units for data transfer offsite. ( We already have a backup server which will hold "live" backup data )
The idea is that this will backup the backup server and be taken offsite for DR purposes.
We're looking at building 2 ITX based boxes , each with 4 250 Gb S-ATA drives in a raid 5 config, to give us a whopping 750Gb of offsite data.
Got 2 questions mainly.
Is the PSU in the Venus ITX case beefy enough to drive those 4 HDs ( no CD/Floppy )
Is there a ITX board with onboard gigabit networking? , as the PCI slot is taken up with the hipoint sata raid controller
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ohh - that sounds doable - and I think the venus case supports it.
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Not sure about the power. It's 250W right? My old 250W (no brand) PSU worked fine with 2 HDD's, a CD-RW and a DVD-ROM when I had an Athlon 1.4 and a GeForce 2, but changed to my current spec and it wouldn't run both HDD's and both optical drives at the same time...
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I'm guessing that the itx boards are pretty low consuption - the case is only a 200w job :/
