Ok shopping bitches.
I have a load of old spare 40GB IDE drives. Besides building an el-cheapo PC to put them in, are there any cheap external IDE RAID boxes out there?

Alternatively, why aren't you out in the sunshine?
( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:32, archived)

Cause I'm doing fucking randomburns.

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:33, archived)

I have a job,
I'm bored and grumpy you don't want shopping advice from me.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:34, archived)

methinks just build one
marknelson.us/2006/07/11/raid5-part2/

that sort of thing?
( TBL I posted this on, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:34, archived)

If I had a time machine, I'd go back and kill the man that started the "let's put blue LEDs in everything" trend.

( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:37, archived)

I'll join you
that entire case modding thing should be left to the geeks who go to shows and take their towers with them. Poeople who mod cases and they are the only people to see them need help.
( TBL I posted this on, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:45, archived)

It's just infruriating to discover that whatever I buy, somewhere, it will have an overly bright blue LED.

( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:48, archived)

I'll be out soon
to watch my biggest girl child in her sports day.
( jenpots, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:35, archived)

Cos it's raining here
Like the cow that pisses.
( Theoban What of it, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:35, archived)

GODDAMNIT!
Fix this problem, please.
( thealternativefact, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:36, archived)

The meteo says SUN for the rest of the week
I will be holding it to account
( Theoban What of it, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:37, archived)

Hurrah!

( thealternativefact, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:38, archived)

because job hunting is occupying my time
It's a ballache
( executiverocker only wears C&A, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:35, archived)

just buy yourself a cheap 1TB drive
it will be cheaper than any raid device you could find for IDE discs,
and 25 times the capacity.
( turb0t, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:35, archived)

if you shove them all into a Linux box, can it mount them all as a single logical drive?
fucked if I know, throw them in a skip
( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:36, archived)

Yes
and good advice.
( turb0t, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:37, archived)

there ya go then, Samba server ahoy

( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:38, archived)

I would never dirty my home with a Linux PC.

( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:40, archived)

neither would I
I suggest you knock nails through the drive platters before you throw them away though, stops the police recovering your stash of child pornography
( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:42, archived)

It's hammering it down here.
Ooooo, thunder!
( Harold Bishop's Love Child some sort of terrifying sex magician., Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:37, archived)

If its home network
I bought 2 of these www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=97390

I use this program www.han-soft.com/habt.php (Auto backup freeware)

Plug them into the router and you have cheap wireless backups
( Gooch Is neither here nor there, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:37, archived)

They are not raided
But just set the backup to do the same thing to each disc
( Gooch Is neither here nor there, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:41, archived)

That would involve having at least 5 of those boxes.
The best I found so far is an external RAID box that holds 2 drives. Might go for those.
( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:43, archived)

Because I'm at work
watching the huge torrential hail and rain storm going on.
( Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:39, archived)