RE: Connecting lots of hard drives to a mac?!?!

["christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

If all you want to do is serve disk I would go linux rather than xp/mac as
its a free, stable os (please don't tell me macs are stable - I had 2 minis
and they crashed quite a few times) and frankly you get pretty good support
through the forums so thats not an issue. Stick a 3ware sata card in your
current xp pc, install linux, attach the sata disks (with a hotspare) and
forget about it - it won't go wrong!

On a side note, why does everyone seem to have so much trouble with xp ? I
know it should come with a decent av/firewall package but once you add
something like zonealarm its not bad at all - we have 5 xp boxes at home
and
they give no bother (his/hers/laptop/home automation/geovision).



Chris


>From: "noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Connecting lots of hard drives to a mac?!?!
>Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:28:54 -0000
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>Hey guys,
>I'm thinking more about my media server requirements and im back to
>the mac/pc question!
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>Im fed up with my Windows XP deciding pretty much monthly that its
>going to screw itself up and require a system restore.  (this pc
>doesn't get used at all apart from maybe 10 hours per week just turned
>on with xxbmc streaming files from it!)
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>So I need to find an effective, robust way to connect lots (4-8) sata
>hard drives to a mac?!
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>i've heard about it being done with firewire but that doesn't seem to
>be particularly elegant although if it works and is reccomended then
hey!
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>any other ways of doing it?!
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>no specific mac hardware in mind, i'll consider anything even second
>hand, for this number of drives i'd assume i'd need somehting like a
>second hand powermac g4 the ones with the proper cases to fit the
>drives and some kind of expansion card that a mac would accept?!?
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>Any ideas greatly received!
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>Thanks
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>noel
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