Time to ditch the external harddrives enclosure...

[Flerbizky]

This has been ordered :

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/the-sata-hdd-stage-rack-at-last/

 

[ceiling_fan]

It's cheap too!

 

[V1P3R]

Now if only they could make the HDD smaller but storage bigger. xD

 

[PLmatt91]

That's soooooooo cool. I might consider getting that when it's available.

 

[F1GTR]

Pssh no eSATA.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Pssh no eSATA.

Exactly.

 

[Flerbizky]

Pssh no eSATA.

Point being ?...

 

[Solid Lifters]

Point being ?...

For myself, it means no easy HDD exchanges for my DirecTV HD receiver/recorder. It only uses eSATA connection.

 

[emad]

my solution:

10 year old pentium II based pc
+ FreeNAS
+
+ Hitachi HD 1TB....x2


I'll be assembling a NAS device for my parents office in a few days. I'll probably drop the 1tb Hitachi in favor of a 750gb Seagate due to the price difference. I may even wind up buying a slightly faster, off-lease computer to ensure better performance under load from the 3 graphics workstations + the office computers which will be accessing it regularly.

The real challenge in all this is to figure out how I want this to run - weekly backup or full on network drive... which would need backing up somehow.... I guess there's a reason small businesses generally don't run enterprise grade technologies...