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

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

aaaah I see!!

those enclosures look cool...!
make/model!? cost!!

are they available for sata do you know?!

Do you have any particular issues with them?

I assume just standard drives, non raid etc,

If you don't mind me asking what devices are you serving to?

Cheers
Noel

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@...> wrote:
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> OK - photo up on the photos area now (I remembered my login details).
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> Phil
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of noel_pilot
> > Sent: 11 April 2006 08:26
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Connecting lots of hard drives to a mac?!?!
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> > Hmmmm might be interesting!! only slight issue is i guess
> > i'll then need firewire caddies for every drive,
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> > or ...iirc can i get multiple drive caddies with just one
> > firewire connection on!
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> > picture would be very helpful, guess you've just got them all
> > daisychained?
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> > cheers
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> > Noel
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> > --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@>
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> > > > no specific mac hardware in mind, i'll consider
anything
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> > > > 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?!?
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> > > 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...
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> > > Phil
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