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Re: Connecting lots of hard drives to a mac?!?!


  • Subject: Re: Connecting lots of hard drives to a mac?!?!
  • From: "noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:25:34 -0000

Hmmmm might be interesting!! only slight issue is i guess i'll then
need firewire caddies for every drive,

or ...iirc can i get multiple drive caddies with just one firewire
connection on!

picture would be very helpful, guess you've just got them all
daisychained?

cheers

Noel

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@...> wrote:
>
>
> > no specific mac hardware in mind, i'll consider anything even
> > second hand, for this number of drives i'd assume i'd need
> > somehting like a second hand powermac g4 the ones with the
> > proper cases to fit the drives and some kind of expansion
> > card that a mac would accept?!?
>
> I have the best part of 30 external drives attached to a lowly Mac
Mini by
> firewire and it's more than fast enough as a media server...
>
> Phil
>











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