Let me throw this out there. What kind of networking gear do you have available?
Most firewire is going to be 400mbit. Better than 100mbit ethernet but less than 1gb ethernet. You can put some drives in a barebones machine and use vblade or similar to export full on drives as AoE devices. Since you mention iMac, Do you have gb ethernet? ----- "Drew" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > Like the subject says, I'm looking for recommendations for a > multidrive > external hard drive enclosure. Ideally the enclosure would support > SATA and > PATA to accomodate using drives I already own, rather than having to > buy new > ones. Also, since it's being connected to an iMac, it can either be > USB or > Firewire - I honestly don't care which. It does need to support at > least 4 > drives. As a final kick, I'd like it to be of reasonable quality. I've > got > an enclosure that meets the specs here, but it's dying, and it's only > a year > old. Recommendations? > > For those interested in digging a little deeper, I'm doing a fair > amount of > work with digital audio, so throughput is a factor, but not one that's > been > a limitation - yet. I have considered chaining a bunch of single disk > firewire enclosures. I'd rather not, because of the multiple power > supply/plugs/outlets - I'm a little short on space already for plugs. > I've > found widely varied fields of experience in the group, I figure the > odds are > pretty good someone knows something about these things, so if you're > out > there, thanks for you help, if it's not you - thanks for putting up > with the > OT post. > > Drew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- Steven Critchfield [email protected]
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