Housing 8 hard disks

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Bob said:
I suppose the reason for removing the floppy is an extra 3.5"
drive bay.


But the IDE HD controller only has 4 ports??? More fans?
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That too. The objective would be to simply bolt in drives and go.
Why not a second IDE controller card?
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Now you start to worry about power supplies and buying parts.
Maybe you already have needed to. The idea is to keep it cheap and
trouble free. I think that site even offers a discount on two cpu
boxes, so the pre-shipping cost would be under 140.

BTW, I suspect the OP's 120 mB figure is a typo, and he means GB.
120 millibytes is only about 1 flip-flop, and I wouldn't go to any
great fuss to store 1 bit.
 
Bob said:
That's because most Houston Independent School District students
never actually used them. They are essentially brand new.
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This had been used. The tracks were on the HD. The principle
annoyance is that the DVD makes banshee noises when spinning up.
Computers get obsolete, but don't wear out. Hard disks, on the
other hand, do both. My 1995 vintage 486/80 is still going strong.
 
kony said:
I suppose I'd assumed "120MB" meant 120GB... surely nobody
is trying to use 8 x 120MB drives for anything. That's 5
enclosures already full if he used 200GB drives... too many
to fiddle with, IMO. 300+GB drives are still at a
price-disparty so I'd have to think he'd have already bought
them if that was a viable solution... for the price
difference he could easily buy a box like the one Bob
linked, or any-random-salvaged box, it's not hard to come
upon a box with a PCI slot, and a couple of $15 IDE
controllers yields 48bit LBA support for larger drives,
ATA133, RAID, etc.
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Hi Kony, I think he`s gone, there`s only us in this thread now. Mind you he
did say 8 x 120meg ie. 960meg total. He`s probably been collecting since he
was a boy <g>. best wishes..J
 
I have 8 full, 3.5" 120mb ATA Drives, that I have collected over time.

At present I use a non hotswappable removeable ide caddy system to view
files on each disk, the problem being I am only able to access one disk
at a time:( To look for something requires a hell of a lot of swapping.

Is it possible to house the 8 disks in a seperate pc case or rack,
external to my computer, but where I could access them all live??

I guess, I could place each disk into a usb removeable case with
external power supply, but I am concerned having 8 devices running at
the same time would draw alot of power:)

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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Create lists of all the files on each disk. This allows you to search
the lists for what you're looking for.
e.g.,
e:
cd \
dir /s > c:\disk1dir.txt
for the next disk,
dir /s > c:\disk2dir.txt
etc.
 
Bob said:
Lemme guess - a Mitsumi. Shake it a bit and it should quiet down.
Loose parts.
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Nothing seems loose. The faceplate says Sony. Unfortunately it
doesn't write CDs
 
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