Suggestions for hardware (no replies)

Hi Guys

Great forum and great work done by so many here I've discovered.

My situation is I've got :

• 1 x Seagate Dockstar
• 3 x 1.5 TB HD's

I need some type of enclosure(s) for the HD's to mate them to the Dockstar which has 3 USB ports (not sure if the mini-USB/hotplug port can be used as well as that'd be 4). Recommendations welcome..

Ideally, I'd like to get the most utilized space out of these drives with some type of reliability, and I was pondering if RAID 5 would be a possibility, as that net 3TB use, but I don't know if that's possible with USB attached drives.
(This thread gave me the idea)

Can anyone advise of my options?

Also perhaps some links (didn't see any stickies) for background reading (howto's, serial connection netconsole setup, etc)...

Getting started stuff...

Thx!

Jim