Re: External Drives Was Request advice on camcorder purchase and creating/uploading videos to Internet
- From: "GaryT" <gtemplemanPAINT@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 09:53:30 -0700
"Steve King" <steveSPAMBLOCK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Steve King" wrote...
That $15 enclosure is probably USB2. At least $19 is the cheapest
I've seen for combo USB and Firewire. I bought a couple of those from
Fry's. After a few months one went intermittant, and just this week,
so did the other one. I'm now considering using external SATA drives
through a SATA PCI card interface. Anybody doing that who might share
their experience and choice of cards?
I've been using some "adapter cables" with USB2 at one
end and IDE at the other end. The cables come with a
small "cable wart" power supply so you can just take a
raw drive and plug it into your USB2 jack on the computer.
I likely have 8-10 of these between home and the office
and I use them with great success for both video NLE and
multi-track audio NLE. I'm very happy with them. $10USD
This is the newer version of what I am using...
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020&cat=CBL&cpc=CBLbsc
While you have to be a bit more careful about handling the
raw drives, having them free to the air (instead of inside a
little box) keeps them running cooler.
On your recommendation I purchased one and have been happy with it.
Works great. Simple. My situation is that I have a half-dozen brand
new unuased SATA drives here ranging from 120 GB to 250 GB. I'd like to
use them externally. I'd love a product that allowed me to hook these
drives to an eSATA port. And a way to power the drive. I'd prefer to
not have to put the drive in a case. I'll keep looking.
The latest computer I assembled had a SATA port
on the back included among the USB, serial, video,
keyboard, audio, etc. And the power supply has an
external 4-pin hard drive power connector. It would
take only a power and SATA cable to connect an
external SATA drive. IIRC there was special logic
on the motherboard to make it a "hot-pluggable"
SATA port.
Just in the last week, I saw a gadget that is essentially a
"slot" that you can just plug a regular 3.5" hard drive into.
It has a fold-away flap over the opening that will show
where to plug in a smaller 2.5" laptop drive, also. It
essentially has the IDE to USB2 adapter chip and the
power supply inside. I'm trying to find the reference and
order one.
Someone was telling me about an enclosure that takes up to four SATA
drives. Just slide them in -- hot swap. I'm looking for it. I'll keep
you posted.
Steve King
Could they be thinking about the DROBO unit? http://www.drobo.com/ It is a
bit expensive but combines the storage and redundancy of RAID in a very
unique way. Watch the video at http://www.drobo.com/products_demo.aspx
GaryT
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