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I started to reply with another option, but you know what, it seems silly to 
put money into using those old drives.  I mean, $12 each adapter, a USB hub, 
cables, PC case, that adds up to a fair bit of money just to use the old 
drives.  Sure you may have some of the stuff lying around, but you could put 
the money towards a 250GB or larger drive for so cheap its crazy, and it 
will have a warranty!

Then after you get the big 250GB+ drive maybe use one of the 80GB drives in 
a portable USB enclosure for convenience, if one 80GB drive dies in the 
enclosure you have 3 more to replace it with!

--Dan


<p1mp_ju1c3@salmahayeksknockers.edu> wrote in message 
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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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