Storage Space

[ZRH]

Could I technically use one of my old cases to just put 4 160GB HDDs + a power supply in and run SATA cables from a control card out the back of my computer to it?

Obviously not pretty or tolerant of people tripping over it, but it would be faster than putting a file server on my 866 P3 and trying to stream things over the network.

In either case I may be retarded, not to keen on the hardware side of things but it sounds feasible and no one else is awake not to mention google isnt helping me much because I dont quite know what to search.

 

[Sarcasmo]

I think you can. I seem to recall a sys admin friend of mine doing this in his apartment.

 

[Valve1138]

It will work just fine.

If you look around there are tons of external SATA enclosures that do essentially the same thing, but look non-ghetto.

One thing is, you should get shielded SATA cables so you dont risk data corruption.

 

[water]

As has been said; it will work.

 

[Sp`ange]

yeah, it'll work. you just have to set up to turn the PSU on. I had a friend that ran an FTP of of 14 SCSI CD-ROMs in their own case.

 

[fly]

yeah, it'll work. you just have to set up to turn the PSU on. I had a friend that ran an FTP of of 14 SCSI CD-ROMs in their own case.

Green to black

 

[ZRH]

Awesome, and I did look for external enclosures, they cost as much as two more drives though.

Now to consolidate my music archive kekeke

 

[El Borracho]

i've done it; works ok.

 

[gottoys?]

yeah, it'll work. you just have to set up to turn the PSU on. I had a friend that ran an FTP of of 14 SCSI CD-ROMs in their own case.

cool!

What did he have on the CD's for download?

 

[ZRH]

cool!

What did he have on the CD's for download?

I was wondering if he striped them like the guy who ran a 10 meg RAID 0 off floppy drives. ^__^

 

[gottoys?]

Awesome, and I did look for external enclosures, they cost as much as two more drives though.

Now to consolidate my music archive kekeke

Do you have a digi cam? Can you post pics of your final product and the internals? I am curious what this looks like on the inside

 

[Sp`ange]

cool!

What did he have on the CD's for download?

MP3s. this was back in '96.. He'd move everything off the HD onto the CDs once a month. He built the whole setup for like $25 with the CD-ROMs he bought off of ebay. He then put them in series and ran them out the back of the case into his other machine.

 

[b_sinning]

Work was getting rid of some Medea raids. It has 4 40s in it but you can replace them with 120G ide.

Looks like this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/5-Medea-Video-R...oryZ3757QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Works great.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

Done this a lot for fun at work, I've even ripped out the drive enclosures from servers that took two power inputs and had a singular SCSI connector and ran the power / SCSI outside of one case to connect to the bare enclosure

 

[b_sinning]

Chikken made iscsi?

 

[Syrup Beaver]

Chikken made iscsi?

We used to make clusters that way too, with a Y-SCSI cable and an Adaptec 2940 in each server with the bastardized HD enclosure

This was in the days before I had the budget for things like 'test' Symmetrix's

 

[CletusJones]

I've actually got a setup similar to that at home right now. I've got a 400W AT PSU in a second case with 10 40GB drives that I got for free. The controller cards for them are on the main motherboard in the case next to it. I just used zipties to secure the cases together so that there would be no pulilng on the cables. It's been like that for about a year now.

 

[ZRH]

Omg kinda offtopic but my Plextor 716A came today... It's like sex

 

[Sp`ange]

Omg kinda offtopic but my Plextor 716A came today... It's like sex

I still have a 300GB Seagate and a new PSU that has been sitting in the box for a couple of months. *sigh* straight lazy.

 

[ZRH]

I still have a 300GB Seagate and a new PSU that has been sitting in the box for a couple of months. *sigh* straight lazy.

:-O

I had this installed in 10 minutes... Of course my computer took about 20 minutes to get past BIOS because the drives were all set on autodetect (2 on SATA, 3 on seperate IDE controllers).