Quantum Snap Server and Samba NT Domain

[Patrick]

Chris Wood wrote:

> Luckily, Quantum offers a 30-day money back guarantee... And I'm going to
> take them up on it.  Below are some problems I found with it for those out
> there that may be considering one.
>

There is also an alternative to using a Quantum snap server.  I was looking at
getting one until I found the price of the 120Gb model to be around $3,000,
What I did instead was build a Linux software RAID machine.  It has 4-40GB
ATA/66 HD running software RAID 5, and a 10GB system drive, with a Athlon
550Mhz CPU and 128MB of PC100 Ram and two promise ultra ATA/66 cards so each
hard drive has its own IDE Channel.  It is running Redhat linux with samba to
share the raid drive to the windows clients.  So with 120GB of usable space, I
paid 1,200 for the complete setup.  But it lacks a monitor, keyboard and
mouse. But you only need that to get it going.

I would have to say that it is a great cost alternative to a Quantum snap
server.

Patrick