Re: Firewire Rack
- From: Curious George <cg@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 22:43:48 GMT
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:50:46 -0600, "Beemer Biker" <jstateson@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"a12vman" <a12vman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Anyone see any weaknesses in a device like this for Videos and Music in a
Home Network?
- reliability
- No SMART monitoring
- speed when managing & maintaining the media archive
- General clunkiness of a slow external box & cables
- For significantly less you can get a sweet Supermicro chassis with 7
or 8 Hot-Swap SATA bays and make a faster, more reliable,
easier-managed network server. The rackmount kit also costs very
little.
http://cgi.ebay.com/8-bay-IDE-to-FIREWIRE-USB-2-0-Hard-Drive-Enclosure-Case_W0QQitemZ8771489918QQcategoryZ167QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
That's not a rack or rack mountable unit. I guess, though, it's fair
to say it has mobile "racks" ;)
Didnt see anything about being able to pull out the drive with the power on
(hot swap). Think they would have said that, you might want to ask the
seller. If it was hot swappable they would have bragged on it one would
think. They should also have shown what the inside of the drive tray look
like. What type of fan, if any. Are the sides metal to conduct the heat?
Bush or bearing in tray fans? All plastic trays are cheap and if the fan
quits you will quickly lose your disk to heat.
Looks like cheap plastic trays with a cheap 40mm or some such fan.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=167&item=5127586628&tc=photo
You might want to look at network attached storage if you want to put
something like this on a network. Else you put it on one computer and share
it out.
If he just wants to add DAS to one of his computers better to upgrade
the PC server chassis. Reliable NAS is a different pricerange, unless
he is willing to buy a good condition off-lease server & setup the SW
himself. That would also be cheaper than this FW monstrosity & has a
few other benefits.
.
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