erland wrote: > I'm still interested to hear if JackOfAll had a reason for having a > drive that isn't related to local media storage and development speed. > > With the exception for this, my feeling based on your post is that it > might be better to look into solutions where we can have an external > drive in a separate stackable enclosure. My personal worries with an > external drive is that it's going to look ugly, but if we can come up > with a stackable solution that looks decent this wouldn't be the case. > The price of a stackable drive solution would of course be higher due to > the extra box, but it would make it possible to feed the drive enclosure > with separate power and select an enclosure for the drive that has > better ventilation. > > This way it's also possible for people to buy player box + drive box in > their main listening room and only buy the player box for the additional > rooms. > > I kind of like the idea of having a solution that's expandable instead > of building a "do it all" solution that solves all possible needs by > itself. > > Is there any stackable solutions that would work with the Hammond > 1455T1601 enclosure ? > > Maybe it would even be worth to consider to have a eSATA connection on > the back of the enclosure to indicate to people that it's designed to > have the drive outside the box and not inside the box ? Or would that > require a lot of changes ? > > I also agree with JJZolx, if the board isn't suitable to handle a SATA > drive you should probably not offer an option to do so, it will just > cause you trouble because people are going to try to use it the wrong > way and then complain when it doesn't work and can't fulfill their > expectations.
The sata connector and and power connector will handle a drive that just needs 5V and doesn't take much power. When I first heard people wanting to do this I was thinking that they would put the board and drive in different enclosure. I never thought anybody would want to put a drive in the enclosure I was planning on using. As I mentioned the longer one would probably work for a low power 2.5" drive. There is no way an eSATA connector is going to fit on the back panel, it is already completely maxed out. The only way it could fit is to get rid of connectors that are already there. There are a few jacks that are big enough that a eSATA would fit in their place: ethernet jack full size USB jacks XLR jacks I don't think you want to get rid of the ethernet jack, a network player without the ethernet jack is not a good solution. If people are willing to use adapters for all their USB devices we could get rid of the full size jacks, but again I think that would cause more trouble than its worth. If I take off the XLRs I'll get shot. So it doesn't look good for an eSATA jack. What advantages do you get for using a SATA drive instead of a USB drive? Do people really need the speed difference? Or is it cost? The Hammond enclosures have a flat top and bottom and come with rubber feet. So one could easily sit one on top of another. It's not locking so you wouldn't want to pick it up and use it as a portable device in that configuration. . Someone could come up with double height front and back panels that two enclosures would screw into if someone really wanted a locked together stack. You could easily fit a full size 3.5" drive in one of these but you would probably want a small fan for ventilation. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98544 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
