> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 20:50, Drew <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Steven S. Critchfield < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> 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? > >> > > > > Step by step here - I have gigE available. I used to use an old Athlon > 1800 > > system that my brother was throwing out to run FreeNAS Unfortunately, > > whether it was a shortcoming in FreeNAS, a chipset problem, or something > > else hindering things, I get better throughput on the current external > > enclosure when it works - and the current enclosure is USB. Plus a > dedicated > > box running just for storage wasn't as energy friendly as I'd like it to > be, > > of course maybe something designed to run as a NAS might be a bit lighter > > weight in the electricity department. I won't just rule it out if you can > > point out something specific. > > Ok, I've located a potential example. Caveats - yes, it's IDE only. I don't think I'm going to find a multidrive enclosure that supports both, but yall might know something I don't. Yes, it has it's own 300 watt power supply, but it's not running a cpu, ram, etc.
http://www.censuspc.com/Mapower-5.25-inch-8-Bay-External-Firewire-Enclosure-Map-5081D-01-98-Beige-or-Black-SKU-MAP508F1D-01-0-pr-3522.html Of course, the holy grail of what I'm talking about is here: http://www.macgurus.com/productpages/firewire/BurlyMultiDriveFWFixed.php But I don't really want to dish the cash to replace my PATA drives with SATA drives right this second.
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