Re: external hard-disk enclosure advice?

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> You may want to check out some of the network-attached-storage solutions.
> ASUS and Linksys have pretty cheap ones (not much more expensive than an
> external USB/firewire box) and it does give you a lot of extra flexibility.

Hmmm, I wanna use it as my main disk though (e.g. lots of compiling), so
I don't want anything as slow as NFS, for instance (I sometimes compile
stuff in NFS mounted trees at work, and man, it's _painful_)...

Now that SATAe is starting to be supported, I'm thinking maybe it's
worth getting a SATAe enclosure and a PCI SATAe card for my current PC
-- if nothing else the enclosure should be pretty cheap (since it would
require almost nothing in the way of interface electronics), and as fast
as the disk itself.

Thanks,

-Miles

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