Re: Is My Data DESTROYED?!

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@shaw.ca>]

On Mon October 26 2009, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
> > > I use a hot-swap sata enclosure for my disk backup. Mine is installed
> > > in one 5.25" slot, elsewhere I have used an external esata version of
> > > the same thing. Cheap and gives me the full native speed of the disk.
> >
> > I have one of those 4-in-3 bay converters, 4 hotswap 3.5" bays, in 3
> > 5.25" bays. Really rather nice. Probably get another one later.
> 
> 	When I first went to SATA disks, I picked up a 12 bay multilane
> enclosure from Norcotek coupled with a Highpoint SAS RAID controller.  It
> was a disaster.  With a small number of drives in the enclosure, and with
> some fiddling, I could get the system to be fairly stable.  Once I went
> beyond 6 disks, however, it was an unending nightmare of problems.  I tried
> everything, including gutting the Infiniband adapters and putting in port
> multipliers, switching to mdadm.  Right about a year ago, I scrapped the
> Norcotek enclosure and picked up a 12 bay port multiplier enclosure from PC
> PitStop.  I've been thrilled with it.  They have a 20 bay enclosure which I
> believe I am going to get to facilitate my next expansion, early next year.

A guy I know got a SuperMicro SC846E1-R900B case. 24 hotswap per chassis, with 
the capability to chain in more of them to the same SAS adapter. Rather 
impressive. I can't afford a $1200 case though, not yet.

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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