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#1 2008-02-14 9:21 am
- tedbragg
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- From: Houston, TX
- Registered: 2003-02-13
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Need a 'target disk mode' on an old PC for drivefarm
Macs have Target Disk Mode, where you can use a Mac as a giant firewire drive. Is there a way to make a PC behave in the same way? I'm needing an inexpensive solution to all of my external hard drives (got 5 of them already, and need more!)
I've looked into multi-bay enclosures, and they're just too expensive for my budget. I have a full size PC tower sitting in the corner here, itching to be used...
Aside from running WinXP with Ethernet sharing, is there a more elegant solution?
And what do you call a box with multiple drives? A drivefarm? RAID Box? ??
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#2 2008-02-14 11:04 pm
- FutureDreamz
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- From: カナダ
- Registered: 2007-01-07
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Re: Need a 'target disk mode' on an old PC for drivefarm
first: have the PC boot a very small linux server that is sharing the discs as NAS
second: there are RAID hardware you can buy that turns old PCs into mass storage containers
Thanks for clicking.
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