There are a few "notebook drive" enclosures on the market that work off the power of the USB port with a 2.5 inch disk inside. You have to be careful in the selection of the 2.5 inch drives that you put in the enclosures to have very low power requirements, but you can find 160 GB drives that do work.
Then some of the "tiny-PC" boxes previously mentioned can drive several of these drives, providing a "server" that can run at very low power, albeit with drives external to the main system box (and the system box might also have its own internal drive). You may want to test one or two external enclosure/drive/"tiny-pc" combinations, as you are dealing with fairly close tolerances here. I should also mention that if the enclosure/disk combinations need a bit more power most have an axillary power input to "get it over the hump", which could be supplied by one power dongle of suitable power output providing the power to all the units at once. You might want to look at the efficiency of these power dongles, however, as some might waste more power than they provide. md -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association Board Member Emeritus: USENIX Association (2000-2006) (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
