Related to The Cost of Bulk Storage posting, Mike Neil dropped me a note. He’s built an array based upon this Western Digital part: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=336. Its unusually power efficient: Power Dissipation Read/Write 5.4 Watts Idle 2.8 Watts Standby 0.40 Watts Sleep 0.40 Watts And it’s currently only $105: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136151. It’s always been the case that…

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