[Klug-general] eSATA

[Dan Attwood]

I sort of did this once.
I had a machine with a High Point Raid card - it supports two sata drives
and two external usb type drives. I then cut a hole in the side of the case
and passed the usb and sata cables out and into another tower case. I then
hooked up the sata and externel drives up inside the case, added some fans
and a temperature/ fan speed controler. i also built a wooden cradle to hold
the two extrenal drive cases apart.

The only flaws in the plan was that the High point card was a total load of
rubbish and never worked right under windows and the Linux drivers were
possibly the biggest collection of fudges i've ever seen and pratically
impossible to get working.

The other option now avaialbe of course is something like the Free NAS
applicance available from VMware and running under VMserver beta.

Dan

On 10/06/06, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just my 2c, based on what I've been planning on doing for a couple of
> years (but never had the time/money/appropriate hardware). but what
> about housing the drives in an old tower (I'm sure I'm not the only
> person with at least access to a collection of them) with a RAID card
> of some type on a small/old motherboard (generally a home network file
> server doesn't need to be that powerful) with perhaps a small old hard
> disk for the OS providing samba, FTP, NFS or any other file access
> protocol you prefer. then share the RAID over the network. In theory
> this can sit under the stairs (with good ventilation) or anywhere else
> out the way and hum to itself 24/7/365 (why for a moment did i think
> there were 256 days in a year).
>
> I'm keeping my eyes peeled for a simple RAID 5 (I like the idea my
> stuff is safe when hard disk failure occurs) card that i can use for
> this, similar yo you all i seem to see is RAID cards that aren't up to
> the task or ones that cost a fortune.
>
> This solution also provides you with many choices for cooling even
> though you have said this isn't an option.
>
> As i said this is something I've been thinking of for some time any
> advice/ideas would be useful. It just sounds to me like the easiest &
> cheapest (I have everything except the RAID card and disks already
> including an old dell power edge server with 6 well ventilated hard
> drive bays)
>
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