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  • Anyone use external eSATA storage?

    Need to buy minimum 750GB asap to back up projects, I preferalbly want the following...
    1-The enclosure to contain a minimum of two drives
    2-The ability to raid (0-5)
    3-Low cost solution
    4-other means of connectvity like Firewire 400/800 and USB2.0

    There are solutions like the Seagate...

    But it's only one drive!

    Western Digital has this but not eSATA..


    Thanks in advance,
    Elie
    Last edited by Elie; 1 May 2007, 12:59.

  • #2
    Might want to hold off until the stuff previewed at NAB hits the street. This is an example;





    Products....
    Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 1 May 2007, 17:05.
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    • #3
      Just saw this on Engadget:

      USB 3.1 Gen 1/3.0/2.0, FireWire 800/400, eSATA External Hard Drives for all of your production needs. From 1TB all the way up to 20TB available.


      All the external interfaces you could want and supports all size hard drives. It hasn't made it to the multi-drive system yet, but that should be soon.
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      • #4
        Thanks guys!

        Some interesting links there :-)

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        • #5
          Would a drobo work for you? http://drobo.com/ redundant/RAID and USB based
          Better to let one think you are a fool, than speak and prove it


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          • #6
            Originally posted by Dilitante1 View Post
            Would a drobo work for you? http://drobo.com/ redundant/RAID and USB based

            The Drobo would be much more attractive if it was eSATA. That way it would be full speed and would suck up nearly as much system resources and USB does.

            Still, a very cool NAS device, and they recently dropped the price to $500. though that doesn't come with any drives.
            “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
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            • #7
              I figured, since these things are just way too expensive, I would build my own like so...

              1-Buy a raid tower with at least 8x3.5" drive bays, I would make sure it's properly cooled and powered accordingly.

              2-Buy an eSATA PCI-X card preferably with 4 to 8 ports, which supports raid 0 to 5 in hardware, still need to find which solution is best.

              3-connect each drive to the eSATA card independantly and configure the card to support raid, either 0 or 5.

              Would that work? I think it would be messy, since alot of the solutions out there consoldate the SATA connections down to one cable capable of streaming all the drives through, or they have hardware raid in the box itself.

              I would have cables all over the place but with similair performance.

              Cheers,
              Elie

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              • #8
                PCI-X or PCIe?

                12 bay eSATA RAID rack

                Dr. Mordrid
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                • #9
                  That is an excellent solution Doc!

                  Thanks, I'll look into it.

                  Regards,
                  Elie

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