Re: External USB drive cases.

["Ben McCormack" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark

I have been looking at the same sort of thing to hold my mp3
collection.

One simple question about these cases.

I assume that if you put 4 physical drives in the case you would end
up with 4 different drives in Win2000 or OSX?

Regards

Ben

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Mark McCall" <lists@a...> wrote:
> I currently have an old Pentium Pro 200 as the "Jukebox"
machine.
>
> If I got one of these...
> http://tinyurl.com/2lukm
>
> I could simply plug it into the firewire port of one of the other
machines
> in the rack and do away with the Jukebox machine completely.
Questions...
>
> 1. How would the speed of reading disks in this external enclosure
compare
> to the current PC setup?  Would it be up to streaming Audio and
Video to
> several sources simultaneously?
>
> 2. What's the performance overhead likely to be like on the PC that
it's
> plugged into, for example I could plug it into the GeoVision CCTV
machine,
> but is it likely to upset it?
>
> 3. Anyone know of a rackmount version of this kinda of thing?
>
> Thanks
>
> M.