On Mon, 26 October, 2009 6:14 pm, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > On Mon October 26 2009, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: >> Guy, >> >> I use a hot-swap sata enclosure for my disk backup. Mine is installed in >> one 5.25" slot, elsewhere I have used an external esata version of the >> same thing. Cheap and gives me the full native speed of the disk. > > I have one of those 4-in-3 bay converters, 4 hotswap 3.5" bays, in 3 5.25" > bays. Really rather nice. Probably get another one later. I dithered for a while between cheap IcyDock or Jou-Jye 4-in-3 or 5-in-3 vs a SuperMicro 5-in-3, ended up deciding I could stretch the extra few quid for the SuperMicro, and am pleased with the result. That's not to say there's anything wrong with the IcyDock or Jou-Jye ones, I've not used them[1]. But I use this for main data drives, not backups. Still, I too will probably get another one when 5 drives aren't enough, but that's a while away (I'll probably need a bigger tape drive for the library first, the current one's only an LTO-2). Cheers, John. [1] The IcyDock 1-drive SATA caddy I have is very plasticky and doesn't feel like it'll stand up to many swaps, which is what I bought it for. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
