On Dec 18, 2004, at 5:01 AM, Larry le Mac wrote:
Has anyone here used one of those removable IDE harddrive bay things one normally has in PCs, but stuck it in a FW box ?
I have a Formac external Firewire CDRW box and I've replaced the CDRW with an IED 3.5" drive, but I have a bout 4 different drives that I put in it and I thought it could be good to have a better disk swapping system.
Would it work ?
I have one bay type fitted to my PC but I believe the cable type inside the drive box is the older style, would this affect performance ?
The concept of swappable HD's first showed up in external situations. External, hot swappable, FireWire HD's work great. They are a very secure backup system, as you can pop out the drive and physically move it to another location. If the building burns down, your data is still safe. Nowadays you can get them in FW 400, 800, USB 2.0 and SATA. See http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/ for some examples.
Jack Russell
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