On 01/25/12 6:23 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Are you using Comcast in Santa Cruz? absolutely not.the local cable system blows. my home is on a sonic.net ADSL circuit resold by another ISP. television is on satellite. in my personal opinion, the backblaze is a little too funky.. $job has used the Sun X4500 'thumpers' but those are being obsoleted by Oracle with no followon product, I've evaluated a supermicro 847 box and was I would not put this kind of storage that you're talking about in any sort of residential environment. I'd be far more likely to rent rack space (and connectivity) from a local nethaus. we have some folks downtown who have rental rack space and office spaces in the same building, with gigabit links, very attractive. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast