[ Sunday, January 9, 2000 ] Franc Carter wrote:
> I am planning to set up a large ide raid5 system. From reading the
> archives of the list it looks like the way to go is with promise
> ultra66 cards, making sure that I have good cables. I am hopeing
> to get a minimum of 8 drives into a machine. My current plan is for
> the following config:-
>
> 37gig IBM ide drives
> 2.2.14 kernel (or may be a 2.3 series)
> software raid5
> Promise Ultra66 cards
> Good quality cabling
> extra fans
>
> Any comments or suggestions ? I don't care about performance (it's
> only competing against tape drives), however I do care about dollars
> per gigabyte and reliablity.
Well, it's kind of on-topic thanks to this post...
Has anyone used the systems/racks/appliances/etc from raidzone.com?
If you believe their site, it certainly looks like a good possibility.
James
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Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development
