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Cheap HDD array?

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  • 26-02-2009 6:51pm
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    kowloon
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    So I have half a dozen sata hdds and a single sta-usb adaptor and power adaptor to run them. Sometimes I have to plug through all five to find what I'm looking for. Multi-drive enclosures are either dual drive ones or extremely expensive. What's the cheapest way anyone can think of to get all these drives, a mix of 2.5s and 3.5s working simultaneously?


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    extra-ordinary_
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    Why don't you just build a cheap system and install the 5 drives?


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    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,472 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Could do, but that's a whole other machine running then.
    I'd much rather have the equivalent of a giant external drive.


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    LoveDucati2
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    buy an external usb and bin the old HD's.


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    zod
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    kowloon wrote: »
    Could do, but that's a whole other machine running then.
    I'd much rather have the equivalent of a giant external drive.

    faced with this I bought a second hand cheap buffalo nas off ebay .. it was over a 100 yoyo tho, not happy with its speed also


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    sink
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    Depends on how much data you have but your best option is probably to transfer contents of old hd's to new external hd. They go up to 2TB, 2000GB now.


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    kowloon
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    It seems like such a waste :(.


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