[Tfug] External PATA enclosures

[Jeff Breadner]

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, Angus,
>
> --- On Thu, 1/1/09, Angus Scott-Fleming <angussf at geoapps.com> wrote:
>
> > > Any pointers to something similar (and cheap)?  I think this
> > > was only $30 or $40 a few years ago (I will have to look
> > > through old tax records to sort that out).  I've not been
> > > able to find a vendor for this particular unit (as is often
> > > the case with these no-name devices  :< )
> >
> > Geeks.com has some similar units for $20-$25
> >
> > VOX N1 3.5" USB 2.0/RJ-45 Ethernet NAS (Network
> > Attached Storage) External IDE
> > HDD Enclosure (Black) Vox ENPA-35N-V1K
> > http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ENPA-35N-V1K&cat=CSE&cpc=CSEbsc
> >
> > 3.5" USB 2.0/RJ-45 Ethernet NAS (Network Attached
> > Storage) External IDE HDD
> > Enclosure (Silver) w/3.14" Fan A-Tec NS-384S
> > http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=NS-384S&cat=CSE
> >
> > LANShare 3.5" ME-740K USB 2.0/RJ-45 Ethernet Aluminum
> > (NDAS) LAN Sharing IDE
> > HDD Enclosure (Black) Anyware ME-740K
> > http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ME-740K&cat=CSE
> >
> > Vox MN1 3.5" USB 2.0/FireWire/ RJ-45 Ethernet NAS
> > (Network Attached Storage)
> > External IDE HDD Enclosure (White) Vox ENPAM-35NF
> > http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ENPAM-35NF&cat=CSE
>
> Excellent!  I will chase down the URL's.  Do you have any
> first-hand experience with any of them?  Or, advice on
> units to avoid, etc.?
>
> Thx,
> --don
>

I've been looking for something like this too, but I'd really like to
use NFS with it.  I've not found a device out there that supports NFS
for less than a few thousand dollars, does anyone have some experience
with a product that will fill this need?

Alternatively, are any of these products flashable to run a WRT-like
Linux distro, like the LinkSys NSLU?  That device only has 100MBit
Ethernet, or else I'd be all over it, as getting NFS going at that
point should be trivial.

cheers
  Jeff