Mark,
Aah, sorry, I hadn't gotten that part.
Thanks for clarifying that.
I don't know what your requirements, but you might consider
you might consider a NAS (network-attached storage) solution.
From a good friend of my, who is a sysadmin and has used Synology a lot, I
hear good recommendation for their devices.
If you are actually looking for a 2-drive station,
here are 2-drive version you might consider: DS214 or DS214+:
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS214+#spec
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS214#spec
or DS213air:
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS213air#spec
You can have those 2 drives configured as RAID-1, if you wish, - to
have the redundancy.
And you can attach your existing HDDs (assuming the correct connectivity,
- see the specs)
Or, you can buy a 4-disk device (such as 412+), and have all your four
disks in one enclosure.
And as far as I know in (at least some) Synology devices you can
mix different HDD sizes.
My apology if this is far beyond what you wanted to hear.
Igor
Mark C Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:14:10 -0700 wrote:
Igor - I should clarify: I was looking at a 2 drive station and thought I
could put a 4 and a 3 TB drive in it instead of having the 2 drives in
enclosures. So I was considering buying 2 4 TB drives and extracting the 3
TB drives from their enclosures to create this system. The advantages
might be - using one socket on the power strip vs 2 and having flexibility
in cloning the master library onto backups.
Thanks again -
Mark
On 10/24/2014 6:59 PM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Mark,
That docking station solution is for the case when you are have just
bare internal drives and have a bunch of them. There is no reason to take
the drives for that out of their existing USB enclosures (assuming those
are perfectly functional and have the optimum connectivity).
Igor
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