A quick question:
Over the last few years, I've bought various external drives/enclosures. I have 4 2.5" drives (both ATA and SATA), and a couple 3.5" drives (ATA).
Has anybody seen an enclosure (or rack mount system) that would let me mount all these drives as a "JBOD". I don't need to RAID them, but I'd like to get rid of all the power bricks, USB, USB2, and Firewire cables, and perhaps have just one Firewire 2 / ESATA, etc cable that I can hook into my network hanging off a PowerMac G5 Desktop.
What I'm thinking I need to do is give them all to family/friends for backup media, and buy a homogeneous farm of disks in a rack type system to replace them (need about 3Tb of space to store backups of my Aperture Library and various Parallels and VMWare images for work).
Any opinions or suggestions?
TIA, Steve
Over the last few years, I've bought various external drives/enclosures. I have 4 2.5" drives (both ATA and SATA), and a couple 3.5" drives (ATA).
Has anybody seen an enclosure (or rack mount system) that would let me mount all these drives as a "JBOD". I don't need to RAID them, but I'd like to get rid of all the power bricks, USB, USB2, and Firewire cables, and perhaps have just one Firewire 2 / ESATA, etc cable that I can hook into my network hanging off a PowerMac G5 Desktop.
What I'm thinking I need to do is give them all to family/friends for backup media, and buy a homogeneous farm of disks in a rack type system to replace them (need about 3Tb of space to store backups of my Aperture Library and various Parallels and VMWare images for work).
Any opinions or suggestions?
TIA, Steve