I for one am currently using internal removable IDE racks...they've been great so far....but now I am totally lost and need help ASAP. Need to make a buying decision within a few hours...and need to get the HD's together this week.
I got a Mac Pro and my other machine is still the same (Storm 2) and I have no idea how to share projects with these 2 machines. Mac Pro will have Bootcamp with Edius.
Now, what I've figured out is that I should get external enclosures (with proper heat control) and find one that supports IDE and SATAII with support for eSATA and USB2.0 (So I can share them between Mac and PC...and Macs have no eSATA ports, so I have to stick in an external eSATA adapter)...anyways, I have about 8 drives, they are all IDE. What to do? I've found an enclosure that supports what I want to do, but doesn't have a fan on it...so I'm afraid that these drives will die quickly. My current racks are keeping them pretty cool and they've lasted for a long time for me, they are between 27C to 33C.
I'm in dire need of help and don't want to plunk down thousands for a central storage system, yet....but I want the ability to share these drives between these two computers. I will be adding a gigabit network, but still need the ability to move drives around.
Here's the one I found off newegg, but couldn't find proper ones through froogle/google.
Another one would be:
But this one doesn't do eSATA (for being future proof when I start to buy more SATA drives).
I got a Mac Pro and my other machine is still the same (Storm 2) and I have no idea how to share projects with these 2 machines. Mac Pro will have Bootcamp with Edius.
Now, what I've figured out is that I should get external enclosures (with proper heat control) and find one that supports IDE and SATAII with support for eSATA and USB2.0 (So I can share them between Mac and PC...and Macs have no eSATA ports, so I have to stick in an external eSATA adapter)...anyways, I have about 8 drives, they are all IDE. What to do? I've found an enclosure that supports what I want to do, but doesn't have a fan on it...so I'm afraid that these drives will die quickly. My current racks are keeping them pretty cool and they've lasted for a long time for me, they are between 27C to 33C.
I'm in dire need of help and don't want to plunk down thousands for a central storage system, yet....but I want the ability to share these drives between these two computers. I will be adding a gigabit network, but still need the ability to move drives around.
Here's the one I found off newegg, but couldn't find proper ones through froogle/google.
Another one would be:
But this one doesn't do eSATA (for being future proof when I start to buy more SATA drives).
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