Re: Cheap Enclosure for 4 IDE drives?

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From: Helper Monkey Assault Squad 7
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:02

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On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:31:33 GMT,
h1dd3n_h4m$73r@salmahayeksknockers.edu wrote:

>In calgary.general Lil' Dave <spamyourself@virus.net> wrote:
>
>> Admittedly, this is probably a bit more expensive than you intended, but
>> interesting:
>> http://www.usbgear.com/Dual_bay_firewire_case_enclosure/
>
>I've seen those, but you're right:  Too expensive... And no room to expand.
>I want my enclosure to have more room so I can add more 80GB drives down the
>road as they get cheaper, and expand my raid 5 array.

Just out of curiosity, are you planning on using software or hardware
raid 5? I keep hoping the pricing on decent raid 5 sata cards will
drop, but it's yet to happen. In the meantime, I've got several
terabytes of music & video languishing on optical media.

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