[Malvern] External HDs

[Andrew Ballantine]

Ian,

If you are, ideally, looking for an external Raid solution, have you
considered an external NAS box. There is a choice of SATA or IDE with
support for terabyte drives. At minimum you can have a 500GB Raid 2
(mirrored) configuration. The box I have is for 3.5in drives, but there may
well be 2.5in NAS boxes as well. The 3.5in NAS boxes are about £70-£135
without drives.
These boxes are quite small (22cm x 8cm x 13cm) and portable if need be.
A NAS box is connected to the LAN and can be accessed by more than one
computer and is Windows and Linux compatible.

Just a thought.

http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=411+500001+1000088&Ntk=gensearch_003&Ntt=nas&Ntx=

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=49GV  (Allows drives of any
size)

Kind regards,

AndreW Ballantine.

2009/3/23 Ian Pascoe <ianpascoe at btinternet.com>

> Guys
>
> Thinking of getting some external (to be easily removable) storage.  My
> only
> real criteria is that it's > 250Gb and ideally powered from the PC.  This
> gives me a choice of eithre USB 2.0 or SATA drives; maybe also IDE?
>
> The interface to the host PC is USB 2.0 as I've acquired a couple of
> Viglen's MPC-L;s  and they're not short of USB sockets, with a view to
> making them file servers.
>
> I don't mind mounting them in a multi bay caddy if the caddy requires it's
> own power  supply, but not power supplys to individual drives.
>
> The drives have to be both Linux and Windblows compatible.  There will be
> in
> multiples of 2 - one the live disk and the other a carbon copy of it -
> thought of RAID but it doesn't give me the pull out and use elsewhere ease
> of use.
>
> To an aside, anyone have current experience of the Windblows X3  drivers -
> are they any more reliable than they were a couple of years ago?
>
> Peoples thoughts?
>
> Ian
>
>
>
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Kind regards,

Andrew Ballantine
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