> I have been using an older 64bit system, socket 754 for a while now. It
> has
> the old PCI bus 33Mhz. I have two low cost (no HW RAID) PCI SATA I cards
> each with 4 ports to give me an eight disk RAID 6. I also have a Gig NIC,
> on the PCI bus. I have Gig switches with clients connecting to
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 17:18 -0500, Daniel Korstad wrote:
> > leaving me one 5.25 left for the fan. In addition to the fan in the
> > item above, I have the exhaust fan on the Power Supply, another 12mm
> > exhaust fan and a 12mm intake that blows across the other HDs.
> Sorry, I too much of a hur
> I have a case what will fit seven HD in standard bays. Than I have four
> bays of 5.25 for DVD/CD drives, so I bought this;
> http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16841101035
>
> leaving me one 5.25 left for the fan. In addition to the fan in the
> item above, I have the exhaus
I have a case what will fit seven HD in standard bays. Than I have four
bays of 5.25 for DVD/CD drives, so I bought this;
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16841101035
leaving me one 5.25 left for the fan. In addition to the fan in the
item above, I have the exhaust fan on the P
Dan wrote:
I have been using an older 64bit system, socket 754 for a while now. It has
the old PCI bus 33Mhz. I have two low cost (no HW RAID) PCI SATA I cards
each with 4 ports to give me an eight disk RAID 6. I also have a Gig NIC,
on the PCI bus. I have Gig switches with clients connectin
Justin Piszcz wrote:
> cards perhaps. Or, after reading that article, consider SAS maybe..?
I hate to be the guy that breaks out the unsubstantiated anecdotal
evidence, but I've got a RAID10 with 4x300GB Maxtor SAS drives, and I've
already had two trigger their internal SMART "I'm about to fa
Dan wrote:
What are other users of mdadm using with the PCI-express cards, most cost
effective solution?
I have been successfully using a pair of Addonics AD2SA3GPX1 cards, with
4 x 500GB in a stacked RAID0 on top of a pair of RAID1 configuration.
The cards are cheap and use the sil24 drive
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Dan wrote:
> I have been using an older 64bit system, socket 754 for a while now. It has
> the old PCI bus 33Mhz. I have two low cost (no HW RAID) PCI SATA I cards
> each with 4 ports to give me an eight disk RAID 6. I also have a Gig NIC,
> on the PCI bus. I have Gig sw
I have been using an older 64bit system, socket 754 for a while now. It has
the old PCI bus 33Mhz. I have two low cost (no HW RAID) PCI SATA I cards
each with 4 ports to give me an eight disk RAID 6. I also have a Gig NIC,
on the PCI bus. I have Gig switches with clients connecting to it at Gig
