duh... sorry ... I missed the fact that you were talking about swappable
drive trays/ bays ... not external drives.
I would think that a eSata drive trays/ bay would be the way to go
I myself would be interested in recommendations for particular brands.
On my home Dell Precision workstation with a DVD reader and a DVD burner
occupying the only two available bays, there are no extra bays for trays
so I guess I would have to have an external box like drobo etc...
Besides drobo, does anyone recommend some other external drive bay/
tray boxes? It's kind of a specialized niche ... I see them listed
online but have no personal experience with them and usually with such
hardware, the "devil is in the details..."
ps: ... I also have an added wrinkle... the two SATA drives on my
computer are running in RAID 1 (mirrored) off of the Dell MB's onboard
RAID controller.
I too would like to be able to boot to Linux by changing drive trays etc
I haven't looked but am I'm guessing since this a WIN box the RAID is
probably hooked to the BIOS settings etc and changing drives might pose
BIOS config problems unless I also purchased an external RAID controller
....
?
db
db wrote:
Not all external drives have fans. Metal Gear Box ones (IDE & SATA
models & combo models) are nice, inexpensive and do not.
eSATA drives are rare and have a different connector than SATA ... you
have to have the card with the eSATA connector and a eSATA cable.
Most external SATA drives are USB2 or 1394 firewire...
Paul Meyer wrote:
----- Original Message ----
From: Thanks, sata sounds like the way.
----- Original Message ----
From: Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Sent: Friday, August 3, 2007 10:51:08 AM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] swap drives
We use el cheapo Genica EIDE drive bays. Like $10 for a male-female
combo. But I dunno that I _prefer_ them over any other brands, it's
just that now we've got so many it's not like I can test a lot of
others.
They _do_ have fans.
Our biggest problem has always been the nature of the EIDE bus. This
sometimes results in the drive slowing down to PIO (glacial) speeds.
Lately I've taken to moving the DVDR (normally slave) drives to SATA.
Once the removable drives are alone on that bus they work okay.
If I was going to start doing this today, I'd start with SATA drive
bays/drives.
On 8/3/07, Paul Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyone have experience with brands of swap-able drive bays.
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