On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:39:42PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> Level (2) - Backup Time is critical - Hard disk swap out - Hard disk
> space is cheap. Cold swap tray start at $25 and hard disks under $200
> for 20Gb, prices then start climbing fast. Be careful of someone quoting
> similar prices to above then starting to talk hot swap(big $$$). Good
> for big amounts of data in shortest time. Problematic with power spikes,
> dropped hard disks, security, etc.
I hope you didn't mean me when you were talking about that 'someone' :)
Here's the evidence. Prices from eyo.com.au:
Seagate U6 40GB: $211.20
Promise FastTrak Pro 100 (hot-swap IDE + RAID0/1): $489.50
Promise SuperSwap chassis: $225.50
I don't think the SuperSwap chassis is actually what you want for
just a removable drive bay -- it seems horrifying expensive (the
drive bay costing more than the hard disk? Plus you get two drive
bay things with the FastTrak Pro).
If you _don't_ want hot-swap, but still want IDE removable (where
you have to turn off the computer to swap hard disks), you can get
those drive bays at plenty of places, usually costing about $60 or
so for the IDE interface, and $30 for each 'drive bay'.
Another solution might be to look at the ORB removable drives.
Each disk holds 2.2GB, and the drive costs $350, with each disk
costing about $80.
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