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turning internal drives to external drives

I have two 80g WD drives that i have setup into a Raid 0 right now on an old computer. Well i have a new laptop and want to turn that old computer into a linux box to play around with. So i was wondering if there was a external hd case that would let me turn those 80g's into and external RAID 0 for backup?

cb2
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There are such things - you just need to find a store to sell them to you! A quick google picks up the links below, but you will want to research further.

http://www.firewiredirect.com/firewire/products/Storage.shtml
http://www.usbgear.com/USB-RAID-System.html

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There are such things - you just need to find a store to sell them to you! A quick google picks up the links below, but you will want to research further.

http://www.firewiredirect.com/firewire/products/Storage.shtml http://www.usbgear.com/USB-RAID-System.html

Thanks for your reply. But im looking for external cases with out drives. I have 2 80 gig drives that i want to put into a single external drive in a Raid 0.

cb2
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Thanks for your reply. But im looking for external cases with out drives. I have 2 80 gig drives that i want to put into a single external drive in a Raid 0.

None of those enclosures linked have drives supplied with them.

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external raids have to have a dedicated controller. when setup before as a software raid, all your data is gone.

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This article has been dead for over three months

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