RE: External Hard drive enclosures for storage

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have two of the 8 bay firewire to IDE enclosures from
www.specialtech.co.uk and I've been able to stream four or five full DVD
bandwidth movies off then simultaneously by a single firewire cable. I get
about 17Mbytes/sec sustained from a single drive.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gareth Cook [mailto:g@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 18 January 2005 09:32
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] External Hard drive enclosures for storage
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> I'm sure there was some talk about external HD enclosures -
> had a look via the archives and cant find anything. NAS would
> be nice, but I think the load on the network would be too
> great - unless I bought a gigabit card and the NAS device
> itself supported gigabit and 100Mb.
>
> If I had an enclosure system I can shrink the server down to
> a basic system - easier to keep cool, and free up some space !
>
> Anyone like to share with me what they use for enclosures ?
> I'm assuming that it would need a controller of sorts -
> unless they are USB2 but Im not sure it has the bandwidth.
>
> G.
>
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