Build my own for a $1000

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:58 PM, nitin chandra <nitinchandra1 at gmail.com>wrote:

> >[snippage]
>
> > 4. I would like to have 4 internal and 2 external ( hotplug
> > supportable ) HDDs with each disk capable of storing approximately
> > 500GB; is there a specific drive type and/or manufacturer I should be
> > looking at?
>
> Hot Plug are a costly proposition, I am not sure you will be able to
> get them within the cost stipulated. For internal SATA-II HDD should
> do.
>

In the USA, at least, this is not costly at all.  You can get external
SATA-II drives from Fantom, Quadra, and such with both USB and eSATA
interfaces (Quadra also has firewire) for under US$100 at 1TB, maybe even
2TB.  USB and eSATA are inherently hot-pluggable.  I have 4 of these, plus
the somewhat riskier drive docks (I use Kingwin EZ-dock, but don't have
found the quality lacking) for "internal" drives, also with a choice of USB
2.0 or eSATA-II.  This all works as conveniently as thumb drives. Truly
marvellous for backup archives -- they can be taken off-line and off-site as
needed without shutting down the system.


> >[more snippage]
> > Thanks in advance for reading,
> >
> > Mike
>
> Thanks
>
> Nitin
>
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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