Re: Cheap Enclosure for 4 IDE drives?

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From: Dice
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:40

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h1dd3n_h4m$73r@salmahayeksknockers.edu wrote:
> Dice, yours is easily the most helpful post in this thread.  I think you
> "get" what I am trying to do.

Thanks, I'm a storage geek after all.

> What you're saying makes complete sense, but unfortunately, my constraints
> rule out multiple USB buses.   Thankfully, performance isn't important - As
> long as I'm getting reasonable and realiable throughput, that's sufficient.

Go for a really good USB hub then. I would spend a little more money on 
the hub, and get a 8 port hub (for expandability). Cascading hubs while 
possible, isn't recommended or probably very desirable.

> That's exactly where I'm headed.  My server is Linux, and I want to hook up
> this "Poor Man's JBOD", Raid5 it with software, and use it as a backuppool
> for TSM.

Raided USB Drives, I'll give you this it's an interesting idea.

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