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Re: Cheap Enclosure for 4 IDE drives?

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From: h1dd3n_h4m$73r
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:05
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In calgary.general Helper Monkey Assault Squad 7 <hmas7@grapeape.com> 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.

It would have to be software.  I have no hardware which would allow the
introduction of a raid card.  I would connect the drives as USB, and then
use soft tools to configure a set.


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