In <4a2fc38c.1080...@songshu.org>, randall wrote: >i'm fairly unexperienced when it comes to "rackmountable hardware" but i >was looking at the cheapest way too get as much terrabytes as possible >in a single system.
I can get 18 drives in my desktop with the right equipment, and all of that is fairly old at this point. Chenbro (among others) makes a 5-in-3 that turns 3 5.25" bays into 5 3.5" hot-swap HD trays. Thermaltake (among others) makes a case with 11 5.25" bays plus 3 3.5" internal bays that also holds a EATX motherboard. I saw one rack mount system that was 4U or 5U and had 48 hot-swap bays. >my eye fell on the Chenbro RM23212 which is a 2u enclosure that fits 12x >3.5 disks and i obviously want to squeeze 12x 1 or 2 terrabyte disks in >there. I think the "price point" for drives is actually the 1.5TB models. Last I checked they were half the price of a 2TB model. >i figured that would be the most space/gigabyte solution at an >affordable rate, however, when looking for a matching mobo i can not any >with more then 10x sataII connections. Buy a PCIe or PCI-X SATA card. I know Areca sells a 12 port model. There should be many others. You really only need to 2-port model so you can probably find one that is "low-rise" and will fit in your 2U case. I think they also still make L-adaptors for PCI-X. I don't suggest doing a 12-disk array. Probably better to do 3 4-disk arrays or 2 5-disk arrays each with a hot spare ready. It is easier to grow/upgrade the array that way. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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