On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 10:35 PM, wappling wrote: > RE; I should describe better,the device Im asking about is a seperate > tower > box and power supply that can be loaded with several hardrives > allowing for > easy switching from one to another from the desktop,and very useful > when > more than one OS is needed,I have seen them used in printing and > graphic > enviroments with PC's,and am hopeing they work with mac's? but I dont > know,Ive not seen one specificaly marked for use with mac,,,? > thankyou in > advance
you're mixing a lot of terms there that don't generally get mixed. Generally speaking, you don't need a 'selector' to move between hard drives. I have a half dozen hard drives connected to my powerbook, and can easily boot to any of them without needing a hardware selector. it sounds like you're describing a KVM switch, though. it allows you to use 2 (or more) computers with just one keyboard/mouse/monitor. i use one on my desk, as I have 3 G4 towers and only one monitor - flipping a switch moves me from machine 1 through 3, depending of course on which machine I need to be working on. or maybe you're talking about a hardware RAID array, a device that allows you to take 4 small(er) hard drives and make the computer think that they are, collectively, one hard drive. I have one that turns 4 40GB hard drives into 1 80GB hard drive (with mirroring of 2 drives so that if one drive goes down, the others continue working). -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:G-Books@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:G-Books-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:G-Books-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
