Re: Archival cost of hard drives

We use the Granite Digital chassis/caddies for just this purpose (actually 
we use them to store uncompressed HD).  If you daisy-chain you can remove 
one drive with no effect on the others.

http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg26_firewireidehotswapdrive.htm#btn_sale_hotswapfwcase

Bart

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At 08:07 PM 8/8/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>It contains 8 FireWire drive bays and a power supply, but doesn't have a
>RAID controller or anything.  I have it configured as two strings of four
>drives -- four connected to my Mac for my music storage and four connected
>to my PC for video.  I got it only because all my equipment is in a 19" rack
>and it got messy having individual drive enclosures stacked on a rack shelf.
>This thing fits perfectly in 4U.
>
>On the Mac, I'm using MacOS X's software RAID feature to do two mirrored
>volumes (I don't want to re-rip 600 CDs if I lose a drive).  I would have
>done RAID-5, but there wasn't a software solution when I started the
>project.
>
>On the PC, they're just individual volumes so I can swap drives.
>
>Here's the thing that's a real bummer.  The enclosure I got doesn't have a
>FireWire hub in it.  The drives daisy-chain, and the bridge boards lose
>power if you unlock the drive bay to remove the tray.  This means that all
>the drives "down stream" go offline, so it's hardly a hot-swap thing.  So
>far this has not proven to be a problem, but if it ever does I'll be buying
>a bus-powered FireWire hub and putting it inside the case.
>
>I got the case from FireWireDirect.com, but this should NOT be construed as
>an endorsement by Roku.
>
>--Mike
>
>
>
>
> > On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 11:59:24 -0700, Mike Kobb <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> At the moment, I just have two 250's in my FireWire 8-drive enclosure and
> >> use this for all my HiPix recording...  Since I can't really record from
> >> satellite, it gives me all the storage I need for weeks of saved-up 
> HD, and
> >> of course I can then stream to my HD1000 with StreamPlayer.
> >
> > Can you me (us) more about this FireWire 8-drive enclosure. Can it do
> > raid ? I was looking for another drive today and figured I would just
> > daisy chain another firewire drive. Are the enclosures a better way to
> > go ?
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