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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Jon@eHardcastle.com
Cc: Raz <raziebe@gmail.com>, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-aio@kvack.org,
	"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to configure 36 disks ?
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:22:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C7B730.7030506@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <174852.24274.qm@web51309.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Jon Hardcastle wrote:
> I'd like to understand how you even go attaching that many devices to a system.. I am 'comparatively' new to this.. and have a 6 raid5 system.. not enterprise.. and i have slammed into case/power/sat slot issues already. What sort of hardware must one use to grow to a 36 array system!
..

Here's one way:

  -- four onboard SATA ports
  -- plus four add-in PCI/PCIX/PCIe 8-port Marvell SATA cards.
  -- and a honkin' huge PSU!

:)

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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Jon@eHardcastle.com
Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org,
	Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Raz <raziebe@gmail.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Subject: Re: How to configure 36 disks ?
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:22:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C7B730.7030506@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <174852.24274.qm@web51309.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Jon Hardcastle wrote:
> I'd like to understand how you even go attaching that many devices to a system.. I am 'comparatively' new to this.. and have a 6 raid5 system.. not enterprise.. and i have slammed into case/power/sat slot issues already. What sort of hardware must one use to grow to a 36 array system!
..

Here's one way:

  -- four onboard SATA ports
  -- plus four add-in PCI/PCIX/PCIe 8-port Marvell SATA cards.
  -- and a honkin' huge PSU!

:)

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-23 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-23 13:59 How to configure 36 disks ? Raz
2009-03-23 13:59 ` Raz
2009-03-23 14:12 ` Emmanuel Florac
2009-03-23 16:32   ` Raz
2009-03-23 15:35 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-03-23 15:35   ` Bill Davidsen
2009-03-23 16:02   ` Jon Hardcastle
2009-03-23 16:22     ` Mark Lord [this message]
2009-03-23 16:22       ` Mark Lord
2009-03-23 16:23     ` Christopher Smith
2009-03-23 16:23       ` Christopher Smith
2009-03-23 16:28       ` Raz
2009-03-23 16:28         ` Raz
2009-03-23 16:45     ` Greg Freemyer
2009-03-23 16:45       ` Greg Freemyer
2009-03-23 18:32       ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2009-03-23 18:32         ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2009-03-23 16:52     ` Raz
2009-03-23 18:33     ` Richard Scobie
2009-03-24 19:38     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-03-24 19:38       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-03-25 12:14       ` Drew
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-27  8:31 Michael Monnerie

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