[PLUG] External drive enclosures?

2014-12-08 Thread Tyrell Jentink
Like many Linux users, I use older desktops as my servers. The practical upshot is obvious: I'm not using it anymore, and it's still very powerful, so I might as well put it to work. But desktops just aren't built to hold lots of drives... This case, for example, has 3x 3.5inch drive bays, and 4

Re: [PLUG] External drive enclosures?

2014-12-08 Thread Robert Citek
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Tyrell Jentink tyr...@jentink.net wrote: On a related note, is there actually a difference between SATA and eSATA? Yes, sort of. eSATA (e standing for external) provides a variant of SATA meant for external connectivity.[1] Unless the drive is going to be housed

Re: [PLUG] External drive enclosures?

2014-12-08 Thread Dale Snell
On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 13:05:40 -0800 Tyrell Jentink tyr...@jentink.net wrote: Like many Linux users, I use older desktops as my servers. The practical upshot is obvious: I'm not using it anymore, and it's still very powerful, so I might as well put it to work. But desktops just aren't built