This is SOOO going on my Xmess wishlist...

[Flerbizky]

No - Make that 2 - And 12 120Gb 2½" harddrives !....

It's a Hotswap drive cage that'll hold 6 2½" drives from laptops in 1 5.25" drivebay...

Complete article at the Inquirer here

 

[emad]

holy crap. Now THAT is sexy 👍

Probably unnecessarily loud though - especially if all 12 decide to go under load at once.

 

[Flerbizky]

holy crap. Now THAT is sexy 👍

Probably unnecessarily loud though - especially if all 12 decide to go under load at once.

Have you heard a 5400rpm drive from a laptop compared to a 7200rpm 3.5" drive.. This thing will be whisper quiet - even with 12 drives spinning away !:..

Man - 12 times 150 + 2 times infinite for cages... There goes my Robosapiens v2

 

[emad]

Have you heard a 5400rpm drive from a laptop compared to a 7200rpm 3.5" drive.. This thing will be whisper quiet - even with 12 drives spinning away !:..

my last laptop sounded like a freight train

 

[VT]

My current one does. Which is why I built the computer I'm on right now.

My roommate is talking about getting one of those. He's starting to fill up his harddrives and doesn't have a bunch of room for more. Oh and by the way, he has atleast 1.2TB of storage space.

 

[G.T]

My Laptop is very quiet.

It maybe because the fan is constantly on now ( ), but I remember is was quiet before. 👍

 

[Flerbizky]

My current one does. Which is why I built the computer I'm on right now.

My roommate is talking about getting one of those. He's starting to fill up his harddrives and doesn't have a bunch of room for more. Oh and by the way, he has atleast 1.2TB of storage space.

If he is after SPACE (which I assume) - I wouldn't recommend one of these - Especially for the price. One 500Gb 3½" drive would probably only set him back 10-15% (if that much) of what this will cost.. And I've got NO idea what price range this will be in.. And then he has to calculate in the cost of a 6 channel raid5 controller as well.. Actually - He can a buy a new case with more room and 2 500 gig drives and STILL save for a good night out !..

This is mainly (only) interesting if you need the security of raid, has no room left but have a spare PCI port - and deep enough pockets..

 

[toyomatt84]

12 120's in a pair of 5 1/2" bays.... not too shabby.

I'm looking at getting 6 Hitachi 500gig hdd's to setup in a RAID 0+1 array... meaning a 1.5terabyte drive with a backup, in case it were to poop out on me.

 

[emad]

12 120's in a pair of 5 1/2" bays.... not too shabby.

I'm looking at getting 6 Hitachi 500gig hdd's to setup in a RAID 0+1 array... meaning a 1.5terabyte drive with a backup, in case it were to poop out on me.

what about the parity based raid array (raid 5 I think). You get the storage space of 2/3 drives. The 3rd drive contains parity data which is used to recover in case one drive fails... of course, a bit of parity data is stored on each drive - not just 1