Hard Drive ex. box recommendation chaps

garywork · 4 Jul 2006 at 15:45

I have a couple of samsung internal drives - ide / sata and i'm wondering
about putting them in some external boxes

any tips . comments , recommended units ?

thanks

beckster · 5 Jul 2006 at 00:29

Any of the Icy Box units work great. Got myself a few, cheap and reliable

Rokusho · 5 Jul 2006 at 08:59

Try the Netgear storage central

I think the idea of having as a NAT is much more useful than having it as USB of firewire when you have a network.

garywork · 5 Jul 2006 at 12:02

if your router is running out of ports - how can i add a NAS device ?

PsychoDuck · 5 Jul 2006 at 12:24

Add another router.

garywork · 5 Jul 2006 at 15:43

not being daft but - i have a draytek adsl router working ok

4 inputs , 3 used

so i could get a "normal" type of router plug it into pos 4
then "seemlessly" i would have say another 4 inputs available ?

garywork · 5 Jul 2006 at 15:53

not being daft but - i have a draytek adsl router working ok

4 inputs , 3 used

so i could get a "normal" type of router plug it into pos 4
then "seemlessly" i would have say another 4 inputs available ?

sloth · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:55

Yes, but don't buy another router - a simple switch/hub for a £10 or so would do the job.

Behemoth · 5 Jul 2006 at 20:05

sloth said:
Yes, but don't buy another router - a simple switch/hub for a £10 or so would do the job.

Took the words right out of my mouth you did

Those netgear units do look good, am tempted to get on myself, have got near enough 4 HDD's now in usb 2 enclosures and they are taking up valueable desk space lol.

Tomsk · 5 Jul 2006 at 20:36

Behemoth said:
Took the words right out of my mouth you did

Those netgear units do look good, am tempted to get on myself, have got near enough 4 HDD's now in usb 2 enclosures and they are taking up valueable desk space lol.

Those netgear boxes don't seem to have a good reputation amongst the internet community.

You could build a cheap PC with a big PSU to house all the HD's (which is what I have at the moment - 6HD's + boot/system HD) or get some bridge boards and build your own multi HDD external box (my next project as soon as I can find a suitable box).

Behemoth · 5 Jul 2006 at 21:42

Tomsk said:
Those netgear boxes don't seem to have a good reputation amongst the internet community.

You could build a cheap PC with a big PSU to house all the HD's (which is what I have at the moment - 6HD's + boot/system HD) or get some bridge boards and build your own multi HDD external box (my next project as soon as I can find a suitable box).

I know, I've just been reading reviews on them, some people say they are really good and other say avoid with a very long barge pole.

Hmm well I've got an empty chieftec case and a 550 watt PSU, I expect somewhere I have enough bits to build up a storage PC. I did quick calculation and found I've got almost 1TB in HDD's here !! :eek:

wsurfa · 8 Jul 2006 at 10:07

linux based fileserver is the route I'm looking at as I've got everything bar the cpu to build it and 3 200gb external drives sat on my desk at the mo.

Behemoth · 8 Jul 2006 at 10:26

I've got all the bits too, just not sure if a celeron 1 GHz system is going to deal with 2 x 120 gig HDD's, will find out when I build it though

Gibbs · 8 Jul 2006 at 21:36

A 1 Ghz will work fine with 2 x 120GB Drives, my PIII 800Mhx works sweet with 2 x 200GBs fine with Windows Server 2003. Run as a ASP.NET server also for testing apps