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. -- See these tears so blue. An ageless heart that can never mend. Tears can never dry. A judgement made can never bend. ... And I've been putting out fire with gasoline... {Dave}