I am making a cool new case. I have taken an old old PC case. This thing has holds 6 3.5 drives. Four 5.25 drives. I have a bunch of old drives hanging around. I purchased a few old firewire 1394a bridge boards. Toss in some RFI Shielding and then assemble the whole thing together and now I have over 1TB of disk space. all on a single firewire cable.
What is really nice is that the drive is very fast. I have several drives that are placed together in a RAID with striping. This means that a little bit is stored on each drive. So when I write a large file . . . it is on four drives and each the writing and retrieval is very fast.
I'll post pictures when I am done. I sitll have to make it look good.
FWIW this is on a Macintosh which has the ability to do RAID easily.
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