NAS Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 I have a need for SATA rack enclosure that fits in a normal 5.25" slot. It also has to be USB on the backplane. This will obviously be slower however hot swap USB is pretty much fool proof whereas as hot swap SATA is anything but. In my travels I will post links here of potential products. If anyone finds this interesting and/or finds alternative products I am sure the community will appreciate your posts as well. http://www.coolgear.com/productdetails1.cfm?sku=CGS-35UKS&cats=&catid=168,170,161 $23.98 SATA Mobile Rack with USB 2.0 Bridge Board Built In Link to comment
NAS Posted April 5, 2009 Author Share Posted April 5, 2009 Also considering SATA stage racks as an external but slick solution Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 I like this design for an external unit. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816215055 and this one because it has the card reader in it. I like the idea of having the SD card for my boot and a compact flash for the custom tree. I have not tried it, however I want to. http://www.surpluscomputers.com/348442/sabrent-sata-2.5-3.5-hard.html Link to comment
Rajahal Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Can these be used in an unRAID server, or are you considering these for your desktop? Link to comment
NAS Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 unRAID can use them just not automagically Link to comment
smino Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Interesting...how can unraid use external usb drives? Any performance metrics on it? Link to comment
NAS Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 not in the array though only as it was intended as a drop in pull out USB drive Link to comment
Rajahal Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 So you could copy files from the external drive to the array, but the external itself wouldn't be protected? Link to comment
smino Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Would/could it show up as a share? Link to comment
Joe L. Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Would/could it show up as a share? If you install the unMENU add-on, ( from here) you can use the buttons on its disk-management page to mount the drive and then share it on the LAN. By default it is read-only, but you can also install the ntfs-3g driver (using the package manager in unMENU) and then edit the unmenu.conf file (using the config file editor in unMENU) to make the mount read/write for NTFS drives. Above I've mounted a USB drive. i've also got a button to share it on the LAN. (It is not "unioned" into user-shares, but exists as its own share) Below, a user mounted and shared ALL his existing NTFS drives to evaluate unRAID on his old hardware. He had NO protected drives at all: Link to comment
smino Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Once the new Unraid beta comes out, I will try it. Beta 5.... Link to comment
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