Terabyte Storage Solutions?

Terabyte Storage Solutions?: "You can buy a beige box 'upgrade' machine in my locality for $150. All you need is hard drives. I would put in a master drive and a cd drive for booting and loading the system. Then, get 5x250GB drives. Make a software RAID out of them. At ~$150/ea., total for for machine is $900.

Now, for extra security, *make the same machine*, and put it on a buddy's/relative's broadband line for nightly rsyncs (do the first rsync on the home LAN, though ;). Give them free techsupport, or backup space on the box, etc. Total cost, $1800. Offsite backup, esp. on different power grid and internet backbone, is a lifesaver."