Non-RAID Multi-IDE HD Firewire Enclosures?

Posted by Cliff on Monday January 20, 2003 @04:46AM from the an-outhouse-for-your-disks dept.

Chris Jones asks: "I am finding that with all the large IDE harddrives becoming so cheap lately, I now have 4-5 nice sized IDE drives lying around my home office. Does anyone know of firewire enclosures that support multiple harddrives and are NOT RAID? RAID seems to quadruple the cost of enclosures... I just want a box with a power supply that can handle 4 IDE drives as well as the 4 Oxford 911 firewire bridge boards. On a different note, does anyone know if the Oxford 911 bridge board supports master and slave drives? If it does, then I would only need two boards for my 4 IDE drives, so if someone currently makes something like this, please point me to them! I would expect to pay $35 per Oxford board, $50 for the power supply and $50 for the enclosure... $15 for a cooling fan Does this sound reasonable?"

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On the cheap by GoRK · 2003-01-20 04:52 · Score: 4, Interesting

Maybe it's not the solution you want to hear, but you could always pick up some old AT case and power supply and use that.. Secondhand you could probably get it for about $5. Even new, it wouldn't be very expensive.

~GoRK
Re:Oxford 911 boards by pjl5602 · 2003-01-20 06:02 · Score: 3, Interesting

I stand corrected. Apparently one of the XP patches/updates/service packs fixed the FW device removal problem. I hadn't tried it in months. Sorry for the bad info.