Cheap Enclosure for 4 IDE drives?

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From: p1mp_ju1c3
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:48

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I've got 4 80GB Drives that I'd like to redeploy in my house, but my
existing computers don't have any free IDE connexions, PCI slots, or drive
bays.  I also don't want to create another complete PC in my house.

I've seen some IDE-raid enclosures, but they are all prohibitively expensive.

I've seen IDE->USB adapters cheap on Ebay (~$12 each).  I'm thinking I could 
grab 4 of these, connect my drives to a hub, and place them all in a small 
PC tower, and connect the hub to one of my computers. It wouldn't be
pretty, but it would be fairly inexpensive.

What are people's thoughts on this?  Are there better solutions?


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