External Storage
Sunday night I bit the bullet and bought a new hard-drive enclosure online. The enclosure I got is a Pleiages Taurus 3.5″ Dual-Bay Enclosure with built-in RAID0 (Stripe and Span) support. It hold 2 x SATA II hard-drives which I purchased from Tom, both 320GB Seagate drives and now I have a 600GB Firewire 800/400/USB2 external hard-drive for my storage pleasure.
It looks awesome, like a Mac Pro front, has the same power button as my laptop and looks damn hot sitting next to it. I’m transferring all my data from my 120GB External which I’m selling to Aimee. For some reason though the transfer is going unbearably slow. I have about 90GB to transfer, one HDD in the USB2 port, the double enclosure, Striped RAID in a Firewire800 port and it is transferring at only 8MB/sec which is pitiful.
Ah well, I guess I can live with it, only a few hours left now anyway.
EDIT It turns out the older hard-drive was only giving the data out at 8MB/sec which is annoying.
Alex Taylor is a web developer living and working in
February 1st, 2007 at 6:16 pm
[...] A while ago Alex metioned that he was planning on getting a raid box so he has more storage. He still had a 120gb from the group of 120s that we purchased around 2003 so was feeling the pinch. Anyway I noted that I had two 320gb and one 250gb harddrives in my computer and I was thinking about getting a 750gb and that it would be the last harddrive I could fit. [...]