Re: Cheap Enclosure for 4 IDE drives?

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:33

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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?

I think another PC for those 4 drives makes more sense.

Or decide that you collection of drives is getting a tad bizarre and
replace the smaller drives with much bigger drives, say 250G drives.

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