Need a box for SATA hard drives

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I've been putting single drives in a USB or firewaire unit for a long time.
These boxes are cheap, like $30, right? So I want to find me a box I can
stick four disks in for say $100.

Do you have any suggestions for vendors?

If I didn't build it myself.... I've been looking at the Buffalo Quattro
External TB unit at $800 But I should be able to build my own for less. Do
you agree?


Many thanks for any help you can give.
 
just bob said:
I've been putting single drives in a USB or firewaire unit for a long time.
These boxes are cheap, like $30, right? So I want to find me a box I can stick
four disks in for say $100.

Do you have any suggestions for vendors?

If I didn't build it myself.... I've been looking at the Buffalo Quattro
External TB unit at $800 But I should be able to build my own for less. Do
you agree?
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If you'll settle for three 3.5" SATA hard drives instead of four,
Kingwin makes a 3-HD unit that includes (2) 40mm x 40mm cooling
fans, with power presumably from the PC's power supply:
http://kingwin.com/product_pages/kf3000-bk.asp
PriceWatch.com sees them going for $75 plus shipping:
http://castle.pricewatch.com/s/search.asp?s=kingwin+kf-3000-bk

*TimDaniels*
 
just bob said:
I've been putting single drives in a USB or firewaire unit for a long time. These boxes are cheap, like $30, right? So
I want to find me a box I can stick four disks in for say $100.
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Do you have any suggestions for vendors?
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Nope, I just use what turns up on ebay etc.
If I didn't build it myself.... I've been looking at the Buffalo Quattro External TB unit at $800 But I should be
able to build my own for less. Do you agree?
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Yes, but the dedicated boxes with say an
esata connection cost a lot less than that.

Building your own does give you a lot more flexibility
tho and doesnt necessarily cost much if anything if
you use obsolete hardware that isnt going to be used.
 
just bob said:
Thanks Tim. Very interesting device. But I need an external device.
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Ooops. I missed that it was for 2 adjacent expansion bays
Now I see why it doesn't have its own power supply.

*TimDaniels*
 
Rod Speed said:
Nope, I just use what turns up on ebay etc.


Yes, but the dedicated boxes with say an
esata connection cost a lot less than that.

Building your own does give you a lot more flexibility
tho and doesnt necessarily cost much if anything if
you use obsolete hardware that isnt going to be used.
Click to expand...

Good ideas. Unfortunately my current laptops have only USB and firewire
connections. I could get an esata PCMCIA card but I've not had good luck
with USB2 and firewire PCMCIA cards so I'm reluctant to try one.
 
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