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To: FuzzFace who wrote (4612)	11/1/1997 4:43:00 PM
From: Frank Drumond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7685

>There is a $40 product called a "Mobile Rack" (model RH-10, maker unknown) sold at Fry's, among other places. It is a 5 1/4" docking bay (SCSI or IDE) with a removable container which can hold any 3 1/2" hard drive.< Edwin, how is the IDE connect handled? Do you have to add another card or do you route one of the mother board channels out of the box? How about the tight cable lenght spec for IDE? Sounds neat for a confirmed technoid solution, but the vaguries of extending a bus (at least non-SCSI) out of the box may be problematic for some. Also, it doesn't sound too robust to me. Swapping standard hard drives does have risks. With this said I may check this out since it could be a nice setup for some of my development and test systems.

To: FuzzFace who wrote (4612)	11/1/1997 5:05:00 PM
From: AreWeThereYet	Respond to of 7685

> There is a $40 product called a "Mobile Rack" (model RH-10, maker EIDE version of RH-10 is selling for around $20 each. They are good. > Q. How much will it cost next year to get 20GB capacity in the cheapest removable? $40 for 5.2G (DS DVD-RAM) NOW $20 for 650Meg (CD-RW) There is a need for reliable removable optical storage device which offer significant better shock tolerant then HDD. This is why I never consider to buy a EZ-Flyer or a Jaz/Syjet because it makes not much different than using a mobile rack. Zip is good but 2 disadvantages: 1) small 100meg, 2) high cpm. aC