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paigeoliver:
The hard drive solution likely wouldn't cost ANY money at all. If you quickly ask around amongst any techie friends and co-workers you can usually EASILY get a whole bunch of older hard drives for nothing. They have no value at all.

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on February 28, 2008, 04:34:59 am ---The hard drive solution likely wouldn't cost ANY money at all. If you quickly ask around amongst any techie friends and co-workers you can usually EASILY get a whole bunch of older hard drives for nothing. They have no value at all.

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Especially now as sizes are getting bigger, those 120GB drives are super cheap. Vac seal those drives afterwards and place them in room temperature storage.  Super idea for cheap storage.

I thought of what you said was rather apt considering the the video of the xbox drive domino stunt i just watched.  So much better than using DVDs.

ChadTower:

Keep in mind Grasshopper needs about 5-10gb of storage, not 120gb.  Paige is right, free drives of that size are certainly possible to obtain.  A USB enclosure and 3-4 of those will do nicely.  I got my USB enclosure for about $20 shipped, works well, and it takes 2 minutes to swap a drive into it.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 29, 2008, 08:54:26 am ---I got my USB enclosure for about $20 shipped, works well, and it takes 2 minutes to swap a drive into it.

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I'm usually far too lazy to do even that. I went out and bought a 2xPATA to USB adapter sans power and use that instead. At the time it cost me about $25 or so. Now you can find SATA+PATA to USB adapters with a suitable power supply for about that much.

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 29, 2008, 08:54:26 am ---
Keep in mind Grasshopper needs about 5-10gb of storage, not 120gb.  Paige is right, free drives of that size are certainly possible to obtain.  A USB enclosure and 3-4 of those will do nicely.  I got my USB enclosure for about $20 shipped, works well, and it takes 2 minutes to swap a drive into it.

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Another option is to utilise a pull out caddy system.  I have seen them go for as little as $20 and the cages were much lower.  Great for plug and play.  Ideal for those SCSI drives floating around with that capacity.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Removable-Mobile-Rack-Hard-Drive-HDD-IDE-Hot-Swap-2-Fan_W0QQitemZ180218115254QQihZ008QQcategoryZ64463QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

And those hard drives?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Removable-Mobile-Rack-Hard-Drive-HDD-IDE-Hot-Swap-2-Fan_W0QQitemZ180218115254QQihZ008QQcategoryZ64463QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

That would be a cheap solution!

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