RE: Re: [OT] (A little) : Firewire cables...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Four bay for =A398 + VAT...

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Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of noel_pilot
> Sent: 09 September 2007 21:30
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: [OT] (A little) : Firewire cables...
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> learnt how to use google and found them myself!! ouch!! =A3300 for a
> four bay sata to firewire enclosure!! not cheap!
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> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > er ... remind what this was all for ... ... the current
system was
> > > working without any problem, at all ...
> > >
> > > withdrawal symptoms, presumably ... running a system without
> problems
> > > just don't seem right ?
> > >
> > > it's late ...
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> > No - current system working brilliantly but there are three
> identified
> > "needs"...
> >
> > 1) Short term major rebuild to get the physical size down quickly
due
> to
> > moving house and not being able to house the server in its
current
> big
> > "multi box" form whilst I'm lodging / dossing with
friends and most
> of my
> > kit is in a storage container.
> >
> > 2) Medium term increase in "grunt". The current setup
is working
> brilliantly
> > and copes with streaming multiple audio streams, multiple video
> streams and
> > even multiple hi-def video streams (although multiple hi-def
streams
> are
> > pushing it rather too hard for comfort) but when copying around
large
> > amounts of data then an increase in disc-to-disc transfer rates
would
> be
> > useful, an increase in LAN access speed would be really handy too
(so
> > Gigabit rather than 100Mbit) and a bit more processing headroom
is
> always
> > useful.
> >
> > 3) Long term increase in storage. Current platform is based
around
> IDE
> > drives and was put together when 160Gb IDE drives were the
biggest
> thing
> > available and were stupidly expensive. I think I have somewhere
> around
> > 5-5.5Tb of storage (maybe more, maybe less) made up of odds and
sods
> of
> > drives ranging from 160Gb to 320Gb (plus a 1Tb SATA) but it's
spread
> across
> > so many drives (26 of them) that I really don't have a clue how
much
> space
> > there is and what data is where (physically). Trying to move all
> data over
> > to 1Tb drives for point "1" (above) which means
migrating all drives
> over to
> > SATA as the 1Tb drives aren't available as anything else.
> >
> > I had found some 2 x 6 Pin Firewire400 + 1 x USB to SATA
> bridgeboards that
> > were quite cheap (=A325 or so) and I could have just substituted
those
> (in
> > place of the old 2 x 6 Pin Firewire400 to IDE versions that I
> currently
> > have) as I went through retiring the old IDE drives so was going
to
> stick
> > with those but they've since been discontinued.
> >
> > To use any of the alternatives will require changing all my
firewire
> cabling
> > which is a not inconsequential cost in itself (about =A3150 just
on
> firewire
> > cables) and when you add in a dozen bridgeboards at about =A340 a
pop
> plus
> > ideally a Firewire800 hub then it could well be cheaper to build
a
> new
> > "server" which is what I ended up exploring yesterday.
> >
> > The only thing I need to find now is a supplier for either of the
> original
> > style Coolermaster CM Stacker big tower cases (
> http://tinyurl.com/3ydt5r or
> > http://tinyurl.com/2yxncm ) so that I
can build a first iteration of
> the
> > machine that will satisfy the short term need for a one-box
solution
> that
> > will take all my current data plus a bit of "spare" to
tide me over
> till I
> > sort out my new abode.
> >
> > Phil
> >
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