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Home-brewing a 1.2TB IDE to Firewire Monster

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-a-lotta-pr0n dept.

Delta-9 writes "Here is a writeup on how to combine 6 200GB IDE drives into a small tower and hack together some firewire controllers to give you one giant 1.2TB firewire drive." Very cool project, both technically and aesthetically.

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  1. Re:Thank God by Skreech · · Score: 0, Troll

    this will save us from the hundred or so "Why not firewire?" posts every time somebody discusses some other method of moving data around.

    <heh>

    Yes, but... but...

    Why not USB or SCSI?!?!1??one!1! firewiere si teh lame??? first post!

    </heh>

    Just in case you thought things were getting better.

  2. Imagine... by Daverd · · Score: 0, Troll
    a beowulf cluster of these.

    I can't say that without feeling dirty.

  3. Re:Slashdotted again... by cybermace5 · · Score: 0, Troll
    OK...

    You'll need the following:
    • (1) station wagon
    • (1) portable generator
    • As many DVD jukeboxes and servers as will fit in the wagon
    • (1) router
    • (1) laptop with wireless data card installed and $99-per-month Sprint data connection
    • (1) overwhelming sense of being beyond all possible hope of recovering your dignity as a human


    And then you realize that you could probably drive the station wagon to Jupiter faster than the data could be downloaded there.
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    ...