How many movies can fit on 1.2TB?

depends on how much you compress them- typically, my rips end up @ 1-2Gig per movie. I hope you got some fans to cool that thing..

Where is the mini??

Where the 3 cable start/end

Hi all, I have 6X 200GB Western Digital HDDs in an old PC desktop case. there is 3X sleds from 'IceCube' FW cases, each sled connects 2X drives (a MASTER and a SLAVE), all three drive sleds connected to an APLUX FW repeater, then to the mini.OSX Disk Utility to software RAID them together. currently I have them as 3X 400GB volumes. I use EyeTV recording in MPEG1 for TV and a many different compression techniques for movies, some movies <1GB some >8GB. The Mac mini is on a shelf with mixer and amp

G'day strydr Strangely I've not needed any fans yet. It is an enclosed space with the cabinet closed but it is a large space (old photocopier steel stand with castors) and after more than 18 months, no drives have died and no corruption or any other difficulties. Even chugs along fine on a 40 degree centigrade day (104 F)!

mesly nice

you kidding me memy

what happens if lightning hits it?

Isn't this lightning hitting it?

You're lucky that nothing HAS happened to your setup due to overheating. I'm sure in time, it would Joe. If that is a RAID 0 setup you're in for a big surprise when even just one of those drives crashes. Better safe than sorry.

Hey TheAnimaster, I'm aware that RAID 0 is vulnerable and have any crucial folders (ie: Doctor Who episodes) psync-ed up to another little 900GB G4 I keep in the shed I've been happily surprised at how reliable it has been so far. I am aware of its need for active cooling and am thinkin about it most seriously, I leave the doors open these days. Thanks for your concern (the files are safe)

Thank God your keeping the Who safe! The thought of your Who collection going up in a ball of flaming raid drives would make Pete Townsend give up eating kidney pie. Oh, wait that was Dr Who.... nevermind

HELLZ YA DUDE!!! its all about the raid!!

Hi this looks exactly like what I have been looking for. let me make sure I understand. Did you just strip regular ice cube cases and then use a standard master slave ribbon cable? why did you use the repeater? I thought you could daisy chain firewire devices. Thanks, NICE WORK!

do it with bigger HDDs (320GB WD are cheap now) and you would have basically a media server. That's adds another 720GB so almost 2TB!

The casing is bad ....

Hi Jim, I attached 2X ATA drives to each FW board with a MASTER/SLAVE cable then used Disk Utility RAID so each is a 400GB stripe, times three. I used the repeater so that none would be at the end of the chain. Daisy-chaining means that a failure of one would stop any after it too, plus I had a repeater spare so I thought, 'why not?'. G'day dungeon92, I agree that bigger drives are a better idea but that would involve buying more drives and I don't have the cash spare. I've modded this setup into a large abandoned PC server case and utilising 6X200 GB and 4X 250GB drives via 5X firewire boards for a 2.2TB capacity. Boony, I LIKE the indistrial look, I'm sorry you don't

Like bonny said... and what about PC stuff I was thinking abut mounting them like a wheel instead. Make your own chassie.