Round here 1st gen 2006 macpros go for $100-$150. Much cheaper than any 4 drive holding raid box. I was thinking about buying 6 of these to hold 24 3 tb hard drives and put the four drives in each one in raid 1. Any reason why this would be stupid other than space and weight which I don't care about? For $150 I get a cheaper raid box and free a mac pro and also I could run them all on my wireless network.
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mac pro as a raid box?
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Well bus speed would be one thing to look out for I believe them machines only have the SATA1 connections but if you are accessing them wirelessly then that probably does not matter as your never going to saturate the bus. You also could try using only four machines those machines have a couple of extra SATA ports that are unused so longish sata cables run up into the optical bay and a couple of molex to sata power adapters and you have six HD in each machine.
But would not the free computer be worth it? I have no care about speed either as long as I can access the data no concerns.
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Six Mac Pros, 2006 or 2011, constitute a data center in my book, not a RaidBox. I hope you have air conditioning, man.
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The power required and heat generated makes this unfeasible. If you need 24 drives, three of the enclosures Giuly linked to will cost you $1050. Six of those Mac Pros @ $150 = $900. You will easily make back the $150 difference in electricity costs within a year.
i had that Mac Pro, my electrical bill jumped up for a while.
when I moved to a mac mini it calmed down to a reasonable level.
my mac pro experience have made me an electrical consumption fanatic.
(for a year I had the mac pro and a PS3 rev. 1 running 24/7, I ended up paying 3 times more than the previous tenant in electricity. ow...)
when I moved to a mac mini it calmed down to a reasonable level.
my mac pro experience have made me an electrical consumption fanatic.
(for a year I had the mac pro and a PS3 rev. 1 running 24/7, I ended up paying 3 times more than the previous tenant in electricity. ow...)