Re: [tlug] options when running out of external connectors

[Graham Iphone <grbriggs@example.com>]

I'm not sure if this is what you were looking for, but how about a  
Data Robotics Drobo?  Not cheap, but takes dissimilar drives in  
something like a RAID 5 (?) style system.

Graham

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On 2009/07/30, at 12:37, Gernot Hassenpflug <aikishugyo@example.com>  
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am in the position of having accumulated too many hard drives, and
> wondering what is technically the best solution for this, given that
> the hard drives I have are external USB drives of 500 GiB or 1 TeB in
> size, and I have already gotten one 3-port USB card for my PC and have
> filled my 4 internal SATA connectors and single internal ATAPI
> connector.
>
> What I have considered are in order of "ease of acquisition" to ease
> this hard disk proliferation:
>
> 1) Terastation to reduce connections to PC (or directly to router) and
> transfer data from existing USB drives to this, followed by disposing
> of said drives;
>
> 2) addition of more USB-port cards (as far as slots allow);
>
> 3) replacement of motherboard with one having more USB ports (may
> entail also buying RAM, although processor may continue to be usable);
>
> 4) replacement of motherboard with one having both more USB and more
> internal SATA (and possible external eSATA) ports (ditto above);
>
> 5) living with the situation until I come up with another solution.
>
> Costs are not the dominant concern here: space and ease of access
> (including for disk replacement) have quite high priority too. I'm
> most leaning towards choice 1) at the moment, but if anyone has
> specific merits/demerits they'd like to mention, please feel
> free---also, if there are solutions I have not yet thought of.
>
> Many thanks,
> --
> Gernot Hassenpflug
>
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