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On Oct 25, 2012 7:38 AM, "Mike Perkins" <<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 25/10/12 02:32, tortise wrote:<br>
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>> On 25/10/2012 1:22 p.m., Raymond Wagner wrote:<br>
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>>> On 10/24/2012 04:21, tortise wrote:<br>
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>>>> I've come to prefer downloading recordings onto HDD's instead of adding<br>
>>>> more and more drives for stuff I want to keep.<br>
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>>> Why not leave these drives permanently attached? Just get a cheap<br>
>>> controller card, and only spin them up when you need to access something<br>
>>> off of them.<br>
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>> Interesting idea that I've also been pondering, I'm up to the 6th large (circa<br>
>> 2T) HDD now, the backend case wouldn't cope with its pre-existing 4 drives.<br>
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>> Given the stimulus of the comment to think about this some more a largish case<br>
>> with an old motherboard might be a good repository for these, with as you<br>
>> suggest spin up options, or maybe WOL might suffice for when I want to look in<br>
>> the archive drives....just turn the whole shebang on... spinning down drives<br>
>> even in this role probably has merit.<br>
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>> I'm not so familiar with server cases, but seems a server case would be the<br>
>> thing to get for this. There are lots of old pc's being flogged off these days<br>
>> including servers, I might start looking at these.<br>
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> Be careful using old servers. They often sound like jet engines and have a power consumption to match!<br>
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> You can get a 2U server case which will take a standard m/b and power supply (low profile cards, though). That may be an option for you. There was a 6-bay model like that offered in a one-day sale here for 96 GBP and I missed it. Darn!<br>
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> Mike Perkins<br>
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<p>Consider a low power standalone storage solution like those from Synology (<a href="http://www.synology.com">www.synology.com</a>). I have a 411 slim model but considering a 8 bay model to really increase storage capacity.<br>
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