CZroe
Lifer
I have two old 10GB Western Digital ATA66 drives that were in a striped RAID when the PC was knocked over at a LAN party. My PC died a horrible death (They were the boot drives) & I lost so many files I almost went nuts (I know, never trust a striped RAID but my friends were borrowing all my other storage!). I couldn't even scandisk it (The PC would lock for 5 mins then restart). After loosing everything & running WD's utilities to remap the bad sectors to unused good ones, it developed new ones before too long. I used the utility again and now they've been running for some time using WinXP's software RAID through regular IDE ports and seem to be OK. I still won't trust them for sserious data storage of course, so I plan on using them just to shuttle files between PCs, temporary storage of large files (like CD Images being used for a virtual CD drive, uncompressed video while editing, etc), and faster access to certain data (Files waiting to be burned to a CD to avoid buffer underruns, video editing again, etc).
What hardware should I use for this?
It needs to have a hot-swap bay for the PC they stay in so that they can be at full ATA66 speed and be useful for file transfer.
It needs to be accessible through USB for my laptop & other PCs (Though one of my laptops only has one US port)
I think I've seen some hot-swap enclosures that have USB adapters, but I can't seem to find any anymore. Is there a "dual USB IDE adapter?" I've seen dual Parallel port IDE adapters. Any ideas anyone?
What hardware should I use for this?
It needs to have a hot-swap bay for the PC they stay in so that they can be at full ATA66 speed and be useful for file transfer.
It needs to be accessible through USB for my laptop & other PCs (Though one of my laptops only has one US port)
I think I've seen some hot-swap enclosures that have USB adapters, but I can't seem to find any anymore. Is there a "dual USB IDE adapter?" I've seen dual Parallel port IDE adapters. Any ideas anyone?
