[geeks] A few interesting products...

[Nadine Miller]

On Jun 19, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> On Jun 19, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Shannon Hendrix  
> <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 19, 2008, at 09:07 , Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>
>>>> No response from their website for several hours now.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds interesting though.
>>>
>>> No problem on this end...
>>
>> I'm able to get to them now.  For whatever reason I had no route  
>> for several hours.
>>
>> Neat stuff.
>>
>> One thing about the 5-bay rack... what do you put it in?  I didn't  
>> see where they sold the "outside" of it and the power supply.  I'd  
>> need the whole deal myself.
>>
>> I guess this is for stuffing into boxes that have room for it.
>
> The kindest way I could describe the 5 bay "tower" would be as a  
> workbench raid array. It take a standard 20 or 24 pin ATX power  
> supply (check the photos).
>
> As for a case, you are on your own - I'd like a plexiglass box, if I  
> could get the wiring neat enough...

You could probably retrofit it into an older SCSI/Optical "mini"  
tower, but there's the issue of fitting a PSU in there with it.  I  
wonder how big of a PSU you'd need for 5x SATA II drives?  (I hear a  
zpool calling... :-) Newegg had 750GB SATA II's on for $99 the other  
day iirc.  Disk prices just keep falling.)

=Nadine=