My desktop was replaced by my new laptop (Dell inspiron 8200 1.6ghz p4)
Storage is limited on the laptop and hard drives are more expensive and slower, and my DVD-r drive is a desktop unit.
What I am looking to do is run 2 80gig 7200 RPM IDE Hard drives, and the DVD-r drive through the firewire port in a custom enclosure.
Firewire has a 400Mbps/sec burst and 170Mbps (21.25 MBps) sustained interface
DVD-r @ 1x, 11.08 Mbps (1.385 MBps)
DVD-r @ 2x, 22.16 Mbps (2.77 MBps)
So based on 21MBps sustained rate, with burn rate of DVD-r at 2x <3MBps and <3MBps for data from drive, it should be able to handle burning from the external hard drive to the dvd-r.
A IDE Raid 0+1 setup via external firewire would be ideal. And I found alot of desktop cards that can do this, but most are software raid.
I want to use a regular tower case (have one already)
and standard ATX power supply (have one already, easy to turn ATX power on via switched lead from mobo connector)
I have seen enclosures that have (2) 3 1/2" or (2) 5 1/4" bays. They use a little weak power supply.
I know most of the external firewire enclosures have the oxford 911 chipset.
I know that some of those enclosures have dual hard drive options.
I know that the DVD-r drive has worked with that chipset.
What I don't know is if I can run more then one drive and a DVD-r off the same enclosure card or where to buy just that interface card.
It looks as if the insides of enclosures could run a standard ide (2 connection) cable.
Here's a pic of the guts of one
Anyone done anything like this before?
Thanks,
Jim
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Updated =)
Bridge Boards.. even have ones with LCD displays. Pretty much what I need.. 2 ide ports off the bridge board, and then I just put it into a case, wire up the power supply to a switch.
Found this
Storage is limited on the laptop and hard drives are more expensive and slower, and my DVD-r drive is a desktop unit.
What I am looking to do is run 2 80gig 7200 RPM IDE Hard drives, and the DVD-r drive through the firewire port in a custom enclosure.
Firewire has a 400Mbps/sec burst and 170Mbps (21.25 MBps) sustained interface
DVD-r @ 1x, 11.08 Mbps (1.385 MBps)
DVD-r @ 2x, 22.16 Mbps (2.77 MBps)
So based on 21MBps sustained rate, with burn rate of DVD-r at 2x <3MBps and <3MBps for data from drive, it should be able to handle burning from the external hard drive to the dvd-r.
A IDE Raid 0+1 setup via external firewire would be ideal. And I found alot of desktop cards that can do this, but most are software raid.
I want to use a regular tower case (have one already)
and standard ATX power supply (have one already, easy to turn ATX power on via switched lead from mobo connector)
I have seen enclosures that have (2) 3 1/2" or (2) 5 1/4" bays. They use a little weak power supply.
I know most of the external firewire enclosures have the oxford 911 chipset.
I know that some of those enclosures have dual hard drive options.
I know that the DVD-r drive has worked with that chipset.
What I don't know is if I can run more then one drive and a DVD-r off the same enclosure card or where to buy just that interface card.
It looks as if the insides of enclosures could run a standard ide (2 connection) cable.
Here's a pic of the guts of one
Anyone done anything like this before?
Thanks,
Jim
===================
Updated =)
Bridge Boards.. even have ones with LCD displays. Pretty much what I need.. 2 ide ports off the bridge board, and then I just put it into a case, wire up the power supply to a switch.
Found this