Can you use a Case as home for many hardrives, intead of using external case

[pilgrim2u]

Can you load a case with hardrives,DVD players connect the power plugs...and run USB cables from another PC.
Or do you need a MB and a system?

Or are the connectors on the PS case MB specific?
Or will this FRY the HD's, too much power?
Or...does the PS need the Case "power on switch" to turn the PS on?

Forgot I need some kind of IDE to USB connector if I ditch the external enclosures....whoooops

thanks

I am getting stacks of external cases

 

[Stealth3R]

Or disasters?

 

[Zepper]

That kind of thing works best with SCSI but you can get IDE to USB2 or IDE to FW adapters separate from any type of case. Or it might be cheaper and work better to use a cheap mobo in the secondary case to deal with the drives and just network the two with Gigabit ethernet.
. I just remembered that there are IDE drive to SCSI adapters (Acard makes them) often found for cheap on eBay and in FS/T sections. This would allow you to hook up to 15 IDE drives in an external case to one $40. LSI SCSI host adapter.
.bh.

 

[akira34]

IF you're really set on doing this, yank the bridge boards from the enclosures you have now and put them into the case. Of course, you'll need to provide power to the bridge boards as well as drives, meaning you'll need to continue using the AC blocks or power cords that you're using now with them. The power adapters/cords feed power not only to the drive, but the controller boards that make the drives external. You might be better off just placing the drives some place out of the way and not worry about them.

 

[MeSh1]

i have 4 hard drives in my case 3=raid 5(seagate 200G) 1=120G (o/s) and have them in an antec case. Furthermore im going to add a 4th seagate and so far no probs.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

As someone said, best done with SCSI because you can string up to some 15 SCSI devices off the same cable. So you can build a "SCSI-box" with a separate power supply devoted to the devices, fit the back of the box with an external adapter plug connected to the internal signal cable connecting all the drives, and run a shielded external SCSI cable between that external adapter and the external adapter of a SCSI controller in your computer. You only have to remember to switch on the SCSI-box first, and then start up your computer.

Also, I think you can buy a simpler and less powerful PSU expressly for this purpose. It doesn't make as much sense to do that sort of thing for SATA or IDE technology.