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Viper87227
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Can anyone tell me about this: http://www.mwave.com/mwave/SKUSearch_v3.asp?px=FO&scriteria=BA25642
I'm looking for a means to add several drives to my HTPC, as a media server is not currently an option for me. My largest concern is right now, my HTPC has too many drives in it, its causing a lot of heat issues for me. I'd like to remove 3 drives from that PC, and add them to what I linked to above, and then have the other two slots free to expand later. I have no interest in RAID, I want all the drives to remain separate drives, and not require formatting. I absolutely cannot backup the existing 3TB of data on these drives, they need to remain in tact while being migrated.
Will something like what I linked to support 5 separate drives to ID individually? Also, what sort of transfer rates is this thing capable of with 5 drives going through one eSATA connection? Will I run into issues with that? I'm not so worried about the speed transferring data, but I'm going to be playing 1080p content off these drives and I want to make sure it will play without hiccups.
I'm looking for a means to add several drives to my HTPC, as a media server is not currently an option for me. My largest concern is right now, my HTPC has too many drives in it, its causing a lot of heat issues for me. I'd like to remove 3 drives from that PC, and add them to what I linked to above, and then have the other two slots free to expand later. I have no interest in RAID, I want all the drives to remain separate drives, and not require formatting. I absolutely cannot backup the existing 3TB of data on these drives, they need to remain in tact while being migrated.
Will something like what I linked to support 5 separate drives to ID individually? Also, what sort of transfer rates is this thing capable of with 5 drives going through one eSATA connection? Will I run into issues with that? I'm not so worried about the speed transferring data, but I'm going to be playing 1080p content off these drives and I want to make sure it will play without hiccups.