On Tue, Sep 29, 2009, Dean Hamstead wrote: > Take a look at Coraid. These guys made up ATAoE and their disk arrays > are surprisingly cheap. http://www.coraid.com/
The last time I read the ATAoE spec, i found it had no real guarantees for data integrity or specifying how to handle packet loss on the ethernet segments. But then, I'm a stickler for this sort of thing.. :) > http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_product_info.php?input[product_code]=EL-PC-343B&input[category_id]=277 > or this much cheaper icute case, of which i have its little brother > http://www.mwave.com.au/newAU/mwaveAU/productdetail.asp?SKU=16010594) > > and then drop in a cheap CPU, a motherboard with a lot of sata > connectors and some cheap 4 port sata2 cards. I bought a pair of 5 disk SATA hotplug(ish!) boxes from auspcmarket for experimentation. They work fine enough. The trouble was finding a PC case with sufficient 5.25" halfheight bays which let you mount a > half height disk in it. ;) Adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
