External scsi enclosure

Sun May 29 00:16:13 PDT 2005

On 05/28/2005 09:13 PM, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2005, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> 
>> Was looking for the same thing myself, not too long ago. Be advised that
>> external RAID enclosures are NOT cheap. In fact, they are extremely
>> expensive. I don't know about the performance because I've never
>> actually bought one.
> 
> Probably cheaper to buy a PC, drop a 3Ware SATA RAID controller and four
> Seagates into it and make your own RAID storage server.
> 
> (We recently did something similar - the card was around $400 but 160Gb
> Seagates from our supplier came to $106 each!).

I hope you don't mean this one, cause if so you got ripped off:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148025


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