[LUNI] What to do with lots of ATA drives [was: External chassis suggestion]

[Jay Strauss]

That's pretty cool.  Kinda expensive.  I gotta figure they'll be
bringing out SATA, Network attached as opposed to USB, and more slot
devices soon too.

Thanks
Jay

On 10/3/07, bil <bil at jeschke.homelinux.net> wrote:
> Episode 171 of DL.TV had a nice segment on the Drobo, a NAS device that lets
> you mix and match drives of any size.  And is fault tolerant.
>
> http://www.drobo.com/products.aspx
> http://dl.tv/episodes/?p=2
>
> On Tuesday 02 October 2007 07:04:56 pm Jay Strauss wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > sort of along those lines, I have 8-10 ATA drives (all 7200 rpm, and ~
> > 100 gig), is there any kind of external enclosure that I could get so
> > I could build a big storage device?
> >
> > Could I make a SATA cabinet out of these by using SATA adapters?
> >
> > Any suggestions how to make use of these ATA drives would be most welcomed.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jay
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