Ian,<br><br>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.<br>
These boxes are quite small (22cm x 8cm x 13cm) and portable if need be.<br>A NAS box is connected to the LAN and can be accessed by more than one computer and is Windows and Linux compatible.<br><br>Just a thought.<br><br>
<a href="http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=411+500001+1000088&Ntk=gensearch_003&Ntt=nas&Ntx=">http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=411+500001+1000088&Ntk=gensearch_003&Ntt=nas&Ntx=</a><br>
<br><a href="http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=49GV">http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=49GV</a> (Allows drives of any size)<br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>AndreW Ballantine.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2009/3/23 Ian Pascoe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ianpascoe@btinternet.com">ianpascoe@btinternet.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Guys<br>
<br>
Thinking of getting some external (to be easily removable) storage. My only<br>
real criteria is that it's > 250Gb and ideally powered from the PC. This<br>
gives me a choice of eithre USB 2.0 or SATA drives; maybe also IDE?<br>
<br>
The interface to the host PC is USB 2.0 as I've acquired a couple of<br>
Viglen's MPC-L;s and they're not short of USB sockets, with a view to<br>
making them file servers.<br>
<br>
I don't mind mounting them in a multi bay caddy if the caddy requires it's<br>
own power supply, but not power supplys to individual drives.<br>
<br>
The drives have to be both Linux and Windblows compatible. There will be in<br>
multiples of 2 - one the live disk and the other a carbon copy of it -<br>
thought of RAID but it doesn't give me the pull out and use elsewhere ease<br>
of use.<br>
<br>
To an aside, anyone have current experience of the Windblows X3 drivers -<br>
are they any more reliable than they were a couple of years ago?<br>
<br>
Peoples thoughts?<br>
<br>
Ian<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kind regards,<br><br>Andrew Ballantine<br>