On Thu, 17 May 2007 11:04:16 +0800 Feizhou wrote: F> > Do you have a quiet, external drive case in mind? F> F> I would suggest eSATA cases. An si3124 controller with 4 eSATA ports is F> available for around 100USD. F> F> eSATA is much better than USB 2.0 for disks. Or go firewire. I would stick with eSATA. Firewire bandwidth is ok, but you can use smartmon to monitor firewire for disk failures. (Yes, I found this out the hard way.) I still use firewire for occasional portable storage, but I won't ever use it again for storage that is connected/used 24x7. -- "No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway." - Phillip Mueller