External Hard Drive Cases

[caudio51]

I'm thinking about this one...any thoughts??

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145656

 

[MCsommerreid]

From the reviews it looks like a good case.

However, you will be limited by the PATA connector in side of it. All new drives and the larger drives are SATA.

 

[caudio51]

oh good catch, my new 500 is an SATA I believe (goes to check)

 

[joshua]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145026 this one is both IDE and SATA and has eSATA as well as USB

 

[caudio51]

I was looking at this guy

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817146057

 

[CWS]

I'll have to check what we have in the office. We have 10 of these suckers stacked to store recorded lease verifications. Reading the review at the bottom seemed iffy. Do all the reviews seem negative?

 

[caudio51]

Yea it does, I'll have to do some more browsing

 

[ATCDub]

This is the one that I've been using and I love it. I just used the HD from my last laptop.

http://www.usb-2-0.com/2188700.html

 

[caudio51]

Ended up going with this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145660

Can't wait to have an extra 500 gigs of space

 

[MCsommerreid]

If you need really crazy storage you can build a linux based NAS from one of those MATX cases and how ever many hard drives you can get it to fit.

I have a 3Tb external NAS for media storage (Full DVD collection, music, TV shows, etc) that I love. Unfortunately it was a pain in the ass to build and set up, so it's not for the faint of heart. Much cheaper to build it yourself than to buy it. Most NAS's sell for $1200 or so for a TB of storage, but for that same $1200 I built my 3Tb storage unit.

 

[caudio51]

Holy crap, that is a lot of storage space!

 

[joshua]

If you need really crazy storage you can build a linux based NAS from one of those MATX cases and how ever many hard drives you can get it to fit.

I have a 3Tb external NAS for media storage (Full DVD collection, music, TV shows, etc) that I love. Unfortunately it was a pain in the ass to build and set up, so it's not for the faint of heart. Much cheaper to build it yourself than to buy it. Most NAS's sell for $1200 or so for a TB of storage, but for that same $1200 I built my 3Tb storage unit.

Newegg has a 4 drive unit that does RAID 0/1/5 for around $500-$600. You just need to add the drives, and they have 500GB seagates (with 5 year warranty) for $140 now.

 

[MCsommerreid]

Hooray for prices going down. Especially if it operates over gig-lan, making it faster than USB or Firewire.

 

[caudio51]

Newegg has a 4 drive unit that does RAID 0/1/5 for around $500-$600. You just need to add the drives, and they have 500GB seagates (with 5 year warranty) for $140 now.

That is what I got, the seagate