04-22-2006, 02:55 PM
I guess I'm not the only one? Is the spec really that vague?
The case I bought is 9 bay. I was thinking it would be pretty awesome to have 5 SATA hard drives in removable drive racks in the lower bays, then have 4 IDE DVD-RW drives in the upper bays connected via Firewire.
I found this device: http://www.cooldrives.com/cooldrives/ufsatofibrbo.html
Which would allow let me plug into the firewire port and give me two SATA Ports, one of which could be fed through a Port Multiplier to give me 5 SATA ports (Plus the other on the FW->SATA bridge). But, would those 5 ports work as though they were independent, or only in a RAID setup?
From the FW->SATA bridge, I'd go to either a pair of FW->IDE dual drive bridgeboards, or just to a single quad drive bridgeboard.
Obviously this setup would be expensive, and would take a long while to afford to create, but I would like to have some idea about where to start with it.
The case I bought is 9 bay. I was thinking it would be pretty awesome to have 5 SATA hard drives in removable drive racks in the lower bays, then have 4 IDE DVD-RW drives in the upper bays connected via Firewire.
I found this device: http://www.cooldrives.com/cooldrives/ufsatofibrbo.html
Which would allow let me plug into the firewire port and give me two SATA Ports, one of which could be fed through a Port Multiplier to give me 5 SATA ports (Plus the other on the FW->SATA bridge). But, would those 5 ports work as though they were independent, or only in a RAID setup?
From the FW->SATA bridge, I'd go to either a pair of FW->IDE dual drive bridgeboards, or just to a single quad drive bridgeboard.
Obviously this setup would be expensive, and would take a long while to afford to create, but I would like to have some idea about where to start with it.