On 6/6/05, Blammo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/6/05, Blammo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/3/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As for enclosures I use 2 or 3 types. Mostly I recommend sticking with > > > Oxford Semi chip sets. > > > > > > For 1394a I use mostly ADS Tech cases. They are 1394/USB 2.0. This > > > seems to be the most recent version: > > > > > > http://www.adstech.com/products/DLX185/intro/DLX185intro.asp?pid=DLX185 > > > > Other posters in this thread are right.. you start running out of IDE > > channels, SATA channels, and then plain case space. Even with a > > hardware raid controller (which I'd love to do, but 8 channel ones are > > expensive) you still have to worry about the case. You have the heat > > of the drives, the heat of the cards, cpu etc, all in one big box. > > > > My primary backend has (4) 80mm thermaltake high-cfm fans. Works > > great. Noisy but case stays room temp. > > > > I'm looking for, as I'm sure are others, a good multi-drive Firewire > > enclosure. Something I could cram 5-6 drives into, plug a single > > firewire into my backend, and call it good. Hardware raid would be a > > bonus, but not a requirement. > > > > I'm sure someone makes one that isn't $500. > > > If guy had money to burn, he'd get this: > > http://www.firewiremax.com/miharasyfor5.html > > Or just the internals itself : http://www.tekram.com/ARC-5010.html > > 3 bays, 5 drives, hardware raid.... /drool
Yikes. For this money I can build the whole RAID box *including* disks. My MythTV box has 5 Seagate 300GB disks in software RAID5, at $129/piece from Fry's. With two Nexus fans it stays cool and the fans are absolutely silent: http://www.iguanamicro.com/ne80resicafa.html -- Fedor G Pikus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.pikus.net http://wild-light.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
