Re: Re: [OT] External Hard Disk

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are those external enclosures like these:
http://tinyurl.com/2j6cof

i.e using firewire bridge boards?  If so, do the drives ever spin down?
I've been looking at using external storage (either USB2 or Firewire)
but I've noticed that the single disk units I have at the moment never
spin down.  Since the media will only be accessed occasionally (and even
then, only one or two drives at once), this seems a bit of a waste.

Mal




Phil Harris wrote:

> PPC based Mac Mini to firewire hub, firewire hub to 2 x single drive
> external firewire enclosures + 3 x big 8 x 5.25" bay IDE to
firewire
> enclosures and 26 mixed IDE and SATA drives of between 160Gb and 1Tb
each.
>
> Has been running *PERFECTLY* for God knows how long - has to be at
least
> three years - without missing a beat!
>
> I just use sharepoints to publish multiple shares out onto my network
> and it
> also runs Schelte Bron's OSX build of HomevisionXL HomeVision software
> (via
> a Lantronix MSS-100 ethernet to serial adapter as the Mac Mini has no
> serial
> ports), SlimServer, FTP etc.
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>]
On
> Behalf
> > Of Richard Utting
> > Sent: 31 August 2007 18:15
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: [OT] External Hard Disk
> >
> > 6TB off a Mac Mini how ?
> >
> > I have a 1.5Ghz MacMini but the external FW400 HD's seem to break
/
> > disappear for no apparent reason.
> >
> > Rich
>
>