Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:19:52PM -0600, RTaylor wrote:
> > Yeah. 4 of them are swappable {drawers}. I keep backups, libraries and so
> > on on
> > disks {and dvds} I do video. Video requires lots of storage. {Most of my
> > work is widescreen... {animated... not anamorphic} It suffers when I dump it
> > to tape. HDs are relatively cheap.
>
> Are these hot swappable IDE disks? what sort of
> controller/drawer/whatever do you use for that? We have these huge tower
> cases at work and it would be cool if we had a cheap way to fill the 5
> 1/4" bays with cheap hotswappable IDE drives so we could use them for
> data RAIDs.
Not hot swappable. Just a straight pull out drawer. The secondary {raid} ide on
the motherboard. I'm sure you can buy hot swappable raid blocks for machines.
I'm not all that sure about ide and I doubt you can do it for cheap. For my
needs the above is just fine.
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