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Evening folks, hope everyone's good.
Quick question - been asked to look something up for work and need a little input.
I need a way to trail an IDE cable from a SFF PC to somewhere up to a meter and a half (a metre maybe at a push) away - to a sort of external caddy where an operator can plug in a drive and push the PC's power button for our software to securely wipe the drive for re-use. IDE cables max length is half a metre, and I don't want to trust the more expensive shielded cables that will go up to a metre in length.
I've looked into SATA converters, however our software's SATA handling is diabolical at best. It's far better with SCSI, but scsi bridges are bloody expensive.
Reason being, we currently just have a bank of 8 PC's on top of eachother and operator plugs/unplugs the HDD in teh front of each, scraping knuckles as they go. Rate of work means we need to raise this to 24 machines.
Ideally, the machines will be out of the way at the bottom, cables hidden and tidy (messy things, KVMs) and the only cabling coming up is that to the fixed IDE caddy thing.
Any help or input would be much appreciated.
Quick question - been asked to look something up for work and need a little input.
I need a way to trail an IDE cable from a SFF PC to somewhere up to a meter and a half (a metre maybe at a push) away - to a sort of external caddy where an operator can plug in a drive and push the PC's power button for our software to securely wipe the drive for re-use. IDE cables max length is half a metre, and I don't want to trust the more expensive shielded cables that will go up to a metre in length.
I've looked into SATA converters, however our software's SATA handling is diabolical at best. It's far better with SCSI, but scsi bridges are bloody expensive.
Reason being, we currently just have a bank of 8 PC's on top of eachother and operator plugs/unplugs the HDD in teh front of each, scraping knuckles as they go. Rate of work means we need to raise this to 24 machines.
Ideally, the machines will be out of the way at the bottom, cables hidden and tidy (messy things, KVMs) and the only cabling coming up is that to the fixed IDE caddy thing.
Any help or input would be much appreciated.