Would these Work for external storage?

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I have now 2 external USB-Enclosures with Hardisks.
Each enclosure costs around 40$,bring their own power supply and need
space.

Also i need more storage in the near future.

So i try to get the following:
Buy an Antec Case with Powersupply.
Buy 4 Sata-Removeable Brackets
Buy 1 yet and another 3 later Sata Hardisks around 250-300GB
Buy these converters,which were directly plugged into a Sata-Hardisk
and provide a USB Port like
http://www.addonics.com/products/io/images/sata_bridge_package.gif
Connect later the 4 Hardisks into one USB Hub and then into my PC.


Backup are not really needed,because the Files were already on CDs or
DVDs.So thats why i dont build a Raid5 Array yet.

The Purpose of this System would be to have Files which are needed in
reach.Also to learn something.

 

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On 24 Jan 2005 12:54:21 -0800, sayso_takewashi@yahoo.com wrote:

>I have now 2 external USB-Enclosures with Hardisks.
>Each enclosure costs around 40$,bring their own power supply and need
>space.
>
>Also i need more storage in the near future.
>
>So i try to get the following:
>Buy an Antec Case with Powersupply.
>Buy 4 Sata-Removeable Brackets
>Buy 1 yet and another 3 later Sata Hardisks around 250-300GB
>Buy these converters,which were directly plugged into a Sata-Hardisk
>and provide a USB Port like
>http://www.addonics.com/products/io/images/sata_bridge_package.gif
>Connect later the 4 Hardisks into one USB Hub and then into my PC.

That converter is for IDE to SATA. It doesn't provide some kind of
external USB connection.

>Backup are not really needed,because the Files were already on CDs or
>DVDs.So thats why i dont build a Raid5 Array yet.
>
>The Purpose of this System would be to have Files which are needed in
>reach.Also to learn something.

I would just build a dedicated file server and access the files over the
network.

--
Michael Cecil
http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/

 

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Michael Cecil wrote:

>
> That converter is for IDE to SATA. It doesn't provide some kind of
> external USB connection.

I looked for different kind of connections.Sata-Converters,if
Sata-Cable could be longer then 3 feet and USB-Converters if there are
high quality cable available,which is also longer.

> >Backup are not really needed,because the Files were already on CDs
or
> >DVDs.So thats why i dont build a Raid5 Array yet.
> >
> >The Purpose of this System would be to have Files which are needed
in
> >reach.Also to learn something.
>
> I would just build a dedicated file server and access the files over
the
> network.

I try to take out some Money by not buying a
Mainboard/CPU/Memory/Windows Licence.It will save me at least 200$.
Also i know a dedicated PC will provide me some more Features.