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ozzy214

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6. February 2006 @ 01:25

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How its going peeps? I was wondering. I was going to make a external storagecase with some seagate 5 year sata drives. I got a old 200 watt dell psu I was going to rig to feed it and a old comp case to house it. Im either going to hook via lan, firewire, or e sata.

Now what I need to know is I know they make a specific raid you need to hook all these in raid and feed it out to the pc. But what the hell do you call this card and how do you power it without having a mobo, cpu, or anything else? I know what ya thinking. I can buy one. But what Im building is equivalent to a 4 g servar storage case.

So Im trying to do it cheap espicially since I just got a lot of comp parts of of ebay and the drives are on order. So I have everything except the interface to connect it all together and feed it over to the comp. My idea goal is to a have a terr of space with one drive for backup. So a raid 0+1 setup. I have five 250 and one 500 gig for backup.......I think this is enough. So please feel free to voice ya opinion and tell me what ya think will be the fastest and best setup. Icome tax time is here and I have morney to buuurrrnnnn.H e He!

Oh and these drives are sata 2 drives to...not ide.

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SypherTek

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6. February 2006 @ 05:12

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well as far as powers concerned you could power the drives from a 12 volt ac adapter by splicing the wires onto a sata power adapter.

remeber though youd need a seperate 12 volts adapter for each hard drive as your not using a power supply. if you were to use a 24 volt adapter to power the 2 drives its possible you could blow them up.

and thinking about it if you were to get the sata - usb converter like youd get in a standard enclosure and link the drives up to those the directly connect them to a 1:4 usb hub (or 1: however many ports youd need) you could connect all the drives using just the 1 usb port on your pc

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ozzy214

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6. February 2006 @ 05:49

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Sounds like a plan. Like I said sypher I have a old psu from a dell I was going to splice conectors on for the fans and drives...then splice a toggle switch on the 20 pin to power it on or off. It was just the problem of the interface. I want the fastest connection possible and I want to use a raid setup. SO ya idea would work except I wouldnt have raid.

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SypherTek

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6. February 2006 @ 05:55

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hmmm dont know how youd acheive raid unless you can get some kind of extrnal USB sata card.

and ive had a look for 1 but cant find so they probably dont exist... at least not yet anyway

even if its not in raid it should be pretty quick over USB 2.0 anyway

keep us posted

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