need a 4-500gig storage solution

valis

I need an inexpensive storage solution for a DV set-up. Hopefully $800 or less (yeah right). I was thinking that i'd be nice to have some sort of data redundancy, it is a whole lot of data after all. What i'd like is a HD encloser that supports 4 disks, does IDE to Firewire convertion, so I can just dump a bunch of cheap IDE disks in. Are there any products like that?

paul

yeah i'd like an enclosure like that also!!! preferably a quiet one...

junkmein

There are several options out there for you. I'll put the two I think are the best options for the price and one that cost a bit more but probably would be the best (most expensive) option if money were no concern.



Most expensive: <a href="http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg22a_firewireidehotswapraid_1.htm"; target="_blank">http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg22a_firewireidehotswapraid_1.htm</a>;



Lotsa options:

<a href="http://fwdepot.com/thestore/default.php?cPath=1_17"; target="_blank">http://fwdepot.com/thestore/default.php?cPath=1_17</a>;



and finally



My Favorite (check their whole site...and fairly cheap too).

<a href="http://www.miglia.com/products/storage/mediabank_mtr/index.html"; target="_blank">http://www.miglia.com/products/storage/mediabank_mtr/index.html</a>;



Oh, and dig the new Raid unit..don't think it's available yet though.



Junkmein

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