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Multiple IDE drive enclosure

  • 17-01-2007 5:47pm
    #1
    Anti
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    Hey. I have a rake of ide drives sitting around with loads of stuff on them. Now i know i can just buy multiple external caddies and hook them up via usb2. But i would like a enclouse that can hold multiple drives like this the only problem is I can only find sata ones.

    Can anyone point me in the direction of a Ide one ?


    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Found this one but haven't heard of that company before though.


  • #3
    Anti
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    Thanks Ruu. Never heard of them myself, but this is exactally what i am looking for. Anyone else know of any other manufacturers of this type of product? Also hot-swappable would be a advantage, but not essential.


  • #4
    Steffano2002
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    I can't wait for eSATA to become the norm... Should hopefully happen soon. Fed up of waiting on the USB 2.0 to transfer data between 2 HDDs than can theoretically transfer at 200 MB/s


  • #5
    hopeful
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    Anti wrote:
    Thanks Ruu. Never heard of them myself, but this is exactally what i am looking for. Anyone else know of any other manufacturers of this type of product? Also hot-swappable would be a advantage, but not essential.

    You looking for external or internal rack?
    If you are using IDE drives you won't find hot swap units :)


  • #6
    hopeful
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    Found THIS one...takes IDE drives and uses either SATA or firewire interfaces.

    Personally I want THIS one for my next project


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  • #7
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    The Netgear "toaster" may appeal. Just to let you know it only works under Windows.


  • #8
    hopeful
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    ethernet wrote:
    The Netgear "toaster"

    Toaster being the operative word...I have one of these and had to fit it with an external fan as it used to get so hot during use that I burnt my hand on the top of it. Only use it for occasional backup duty now.


  • #9
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    Good marketing by Netgear so with the name "toaster". Amazon reviews seem to say it could heat a room.

    You could also try the Linksys NSLU2 ["the Slug"]. It runs a version of Linux and allows either two hard drives or one hard drive and a memory stick to be connected as NAS devices. You'd want an enclosure for those IDE drives though -- the Slug only accepts USB connections. It uses SMB so it'll gladly shake hands with many OSs.

    It has lots of nifty features and, being based on Linux, can be set up to use access permissions [formats HDDs using ext3] by user, group, etc.


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