looking for hard drive enclosure that gets power from USB/FW

yalborap · Post by **yalborap** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 6:40 am

meh. not going to bother. right now, I have more important things to focus on. namely, patiently waiting until thinkgeek has their 3.5 inch hard drive enclosures with the cool lights in stock again.

is it bad that I want to cause a massive increase of stuff being downloaded so I have an excuse to get more hard drives and have about five enclosures stacked on top of eachother?

also, do they make firewire hubs? just curious.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:06 pm

xxxeagle wrote:I just cant wait untill they have Terabyte hard drives ( well they are around but nor really available to the public) space would no longer be aproblem.

Apple has one, its $1000.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/W ... 1.1.0.6.12
EDIT: To answer the above question, yes.
http://www.google.ca/search?q=firewire+hub
Its amazing what a quick google search can turn up...

Post by **gannon** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:41 pm

I don't see the point in getting a 1TB hard drive when it'd be half the price to make a 1TB RAID array out of 200GB drives

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:53 pm

gannon wrote:I don't see the point in getting a 1TB hard drive when it'd be half the price to make a 1TB RAID array out of 200GB drives

1 it seems that i cant link to apple sites
2 the thing apple was selling was a raid array
3 dont you mean 250GB drives

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:56 pm

maybe he thought 5 200GB drives, assuming you can use USB or something as one of the discs. I don't know too much about RAID.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:01 pm

I know that you can use 5 hdd's im just not sure if you can use one of them fully.

Post by **gannon** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:01 pm

actually you have to interface raid arrays into a raid card, so the 2 ide slots on the mobo would still be open.