if i get a very small case just for hard drives, how would they connect to the motherboard on a diff case?

[5489]

is this possible? if i put a mini tower next to, or on top of my case how would i connect the hard drives, to the motherboard.

 

[minendo]

A long ide cable.

 

[TallBill]

hwo about a long scsi cable 😀

 

[Cyberian]

<< A long ide cable. >>

Just be careful of the length. I don't think they are supposed to be more than qabout 18" long.

 

[loup garou]

And long power cables. Unless you wanted to use a separate power supply in the HD case...in that case, I guess you'd have to turn the power on on the HD case first, then your main one. You'd either have to use an AT power supply or do some rewiring to 'fool' the PSU into thinking there's a mobo in there.

Why not just buy a really big (server) case and put everything in it? It would be more expensive, but much much easier.

 

[tweakmm]

Why dont you just set up a file server running linux?

 

[NutBucket]

Why are you planning on doing this? I suppose you could use a long ribbon cable or as suggested interface a SCSI cable and use that to connect to the other case. Though the spec might be 18", there's no harm in you doing some testing to see if the extra lengths affect it any. I think its more of a shielding thing then anything.

 

[Viper GTS]

SCSI is the way you need to go.

Use the external interface on a SCSI card.

I built a CDROM server for the community college I went to, 8 SCSI CD ROMs in a stand alone tower.

Good stuff.

🙂

Viper GTS

 

[TallBill]

haha, yeah.. i built a 6 cd rom stand alone unit at my old work

 

[spanky]

i'm sure this is not the answer u're looking for, but i like padding my post count. how about firewire? 😀