Re: future hardware

[Daniel Korstad <dan@korstad.net>]

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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 Power Supply, another 12mm
exhaust fan and a 12mm intake that blows across the other HDs.

This is my current case, with a little mod for an extra drive;
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811133133

I have ten drives in it now.  Two in a RAID1 for the OS and eight in a
RAID6.

If I were to do it again, I would buy this...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811112064



On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 17:22 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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 connecting to it at Gig
> >speed.
> >
> >As many know you get a peak transfer rate of 133 MB/s or 1064Mb/s from that
> >PCI bus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_Interconnect
> >
> >The transfer rate is not bad across the network but my bottle neck it the
> >PCI bus.  I have been shopping around for new MB and PCI-express cards.  I
> >have been using mdadm for a long time and would like to stay with it.  I am
> >having trouble finding an eight port PCI-express card that does not have all
> >the fancy HW RAID which jacks up the cost.  I am now considering using a MB
> >with eight SATA II slots onboard.  GIGABYTE GA-M59SLI-S5 Socket AM2 NVIDIA
> >nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX.
> >
> >What are other users of mdadm using with the PCI-express cards, most cost
> >effective solution?
> >
> There may still be m/b available with multiple PCI busses. Don't know if 
> you are interested in a low budget solution, but that would address 
> bandwidth and use existing hardware.
> 
> Idle curiousity: what kind of case are you using for the drives? I will 
> need to spec a machine with eight drives in the December-January timeframe.
> 

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