I agree with you on the computer business as a whole and I think it is largely deliberate.
That being said, how I'd do it if it was me is:
cheapish decent used quality pc tower (something around a athlon 800 or soish.) dual ethernet or even a gig e sata controller card(s) stack of 5 reliable drives in that case - one IDE whatever for the bsd, 4 for mirroring (or raid 5 if you want, but you already bought the spare drive, right? 2 of them, even, because you'll never find them again!)
if this was on a quicksilver or later powermac, I'd just dump 2 to 4 drives (depending) internally.
I don't really fall in love with firewires drives in general as an online serious storage solution. (that being said, i'm hunting for someone who has an older one in the 20-60gb range to give it to me since I need one for the ibook so I cna put my work lab installs on it to make my job (at apple) easier.)
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That being said, how I'd do it if it was me is:
cheapish decent used quality pc tower (something around a athlon 800 or soish.)
dual ethernet or even a gig e
sata controller card(s)
stack of 5 reliable drives in that case - one IDE whatever for the bsd, 4 for mirroring (or raid 5 if you want, but you already bought the spare drive, right? 2 of them, even, because you'll never find them again!)
if this was on a quicksilver or later powermac, I'd just dump 2 to 4 drives (depending) internally.
I don't really fall in love with firewires drives in general as an online serious storage solution. (that being said, i'm hunting for someone who has an older one in the 20-60gb range to give it to me since I need one for the ibook so I cna put my work lab installs on it to make my job (at apple) easier.)