Re: Cheap Enclosure for 4 IDE drives?

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From: Dice
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:30

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Helper Monkey Assault Squad 7 wrote:
> 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.

Given the extremely low overhead of software raid (even under Windows), 
why wait?

The bigger issue is hooking up the devices (especially if you have more 
than 4). Dan's idea is quite interesting, and expandable, while IDE, and 
SATA adapters are out there they just don't have lots of long term 
expandability. Using USB like Dan is looking at or AoE (which I 
mentioned earlier) you in essence are able to build a 'poor mans' SAN.

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