>
> > There's nothing (that I know of) stopping anyone from buying Intel
> > Astor/AstorII/Cabrillo-C server chassis and making use of their hot-swap
> > bays without hardware RAID. The Astor chassis are surprising cheap too.
>
>True, but a real disk shelf with dual power supply, diagnostic LEDs, and
>some SCSI logic to handle drives that go bad and possibly send crap over the
>SCSI bus, is still better :-)
>
>Marc
What do you mean "SCSI logic to handle drives..."
Generally, if a drive dies, it seems like the HW RAID card is going
to figure out to take that drive offline. I cant' imagine a failure
that could sabotage the bus. In the last 2 years I've seen numerous
drives fail and none were non-recoverable for the ICP-Vortex cards.
In fact, once a drive failed, then the hot spare failed! The RAID 5
array kept running on 2 drives until a shelf spare could be put in.
That server is still in service today.
Chris
