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Re: Cheap Enclosure for 4 IDE drives?

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From: Dice
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:08
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Rod Speed wrote:
> Thats what YOU are doing with multiple USB external enclosures.
>

Except if you had read what he is planning you would realize he isn't 
going to be dealing with multiple USB external enclosures.

> They are notorious for hassles over time compared with the MUCH
> more robust technology of a standalone server with the drives in that.

Really? You base this on what? I certainly haven't seen it.

> And it makes a lot more sense to not be farting around with discarded
> 80G drives at all and to replace them all with a 400G drive instead. 

Yes, but why waste the 80GB drives if you have them? Sometimes the most 
educational/fun parts of computer technology is 'farting around' with 
things.

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