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Re: Cheap Enclosure for 4 IDE drives?

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:04
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<j4m4l_$1xp4ck@salmahayeksknockers.edu> wrote in
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> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote

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

> Thus unnecessarily adding another OS,

Thats a complete yawn in practice.

> and additional hardware for me to maintain.

Less maintenance required than your 4*USB2 enclosures, you watch.

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

> Already done.  These 80GB are the leftovers, but still have life in them.

Life is irrelevant if you have to cobble up an abortion to use them.
Makes a lot more sense to replace them with a single drive. 
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