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Number   :  4982
Date     :  2003-07-09
Author   :  james sadler
Subject  :  Re: USB Hard drives
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 There is an external USB2 drive holder with
pull out drive trays that seems like the best way to
go. I believe it is called EX Shuttle or X Shuttle.
Kan also has a hand built rig for this same type of
thing. The joy of it is that you can actually hot swap
hard drives and it is in effect infinite storage. I
also like the idea of these drives as you don't have
to waste power and generate heat because you only use
them as needed rather than have them idling along
inside a pC case. And another factor is that drives
can be kept in a safe or stored at remote locations to
protect against fire or theft. The Ex Shuttle unit was
not real expensive. If my memory is right it was about
$150 with four pull out trays. As you can buy a 120
gigabyte drive for under $100 now that means that you
can have 480 gigabytes of storage for a total cost of
$550 or a full terabyte for $950. But when you need to
defrag it may take a while!!!
--- daverunda  wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations
> for USB hard 
> drives? I want to start using them on systems that
> have no space for 
> a second internal hard drive to do backups and
> imaging using XXCOPY. 
> The USB hard drives I've priced are a lot more
> expensive than their 
> internal ATA brethren. I've noticed that there are
> USB hard drive 
> kits into which one can install a standard 3.5 inch
> drive, but are 
> these "adapters" reliable, and do they perform as
> well as a "native" 
> USB drive?
> 
> 


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