A friend of mine has recently purchased a Miglia Mediabank HS-R hot swappable twin H/D firewire Raid case and swears by it and Miglia's customer service (they are in the UK)
Website http://www.miglia.com/ Dear Francis, Just and idea to a long term storage solution. I am pc based and this seems a good idea. What does anyone else think. ???. This assumes you build your own pc's. Get a large lian li tower or something like that with more than 4 drive bays on the front (for me anyway). 4 may be enough for some people (2cds,2 racks). (cases beantech, lian li, coolermaster). If you have raid on your motherborard use that, if not get a cheap pci raid card from maplins �19.99. Then get some beantech mobile racks from vgi computers. Aluminium ide caddies are �15 each and the quality is good. http://www.vgicomputers.com/cgi-bin/sh000003.pl?ACTINIC_REFERRER=http%3a %2f%2fwww%2evgicomputers%2ecom%2facatalog%2fsearch%2ehtml&REFPAGE=http%3 a%2f%2fwww%2evgicomputers%2ecom%2facatalog%2fsearch%2ehtml&WD=rack&PREVQ UERY=RANDOM%3dNETQUOTEVAR%253ARANDOM%26PAGE%3dSEARCH%26SS%3drack%26TB%3d A%26PR%3d%2d1%26GB%3dA&PN=Online_Catalogue_Hard_Drive_Caddies_116%2ehtml %23a1047#a1047 The refils are about �5-�10 each depending on what you want to pay. Then get two of the largest cheapest hard drives you can find and mirror them. Use them for mirrored storage and then when they are full pull them out lable them and put another two hard drives with caddies in. They are supposedly hot swappable. So may be this is a solution for long term storage which wont get scratched. If you need a new case then add about �80-140 for one. Two caddies �30 Two spare cases �15 A pci raid card if you need one �20 Two large ibm/hitachi 180gb hard drives �200 for two (approx) based on ebuyer prices Total �265 (approx) Seems like a good idea to me. Any ideas why this would not work !!!. I know the Miglia is about �515 with two 120gb drives in and is portable between laptops etc, so that is an advantage. But if you not intedning it to be mobile. May solve some peoples needs. Just a thought for sharing around Dunno if this would work on a mac or not. Ian Reynolds =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
