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From: Daniel Korstad <dan@korstad.net>
Subject: Re: future hardware
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:18:12 -0500
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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=3DN82E16841101035
>=20
> 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.
Sorry, I too much of a hurry, those are 120cm exhaust and 120cm intake

>=20
> This is my current case, with a little mod for an extra drive;
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=3DN82E16811133133
>=20
> I have ten drives in it now.  Two in a RAID1 for the OS and eight in a
> RAID6.
>=20
> If I were to do it again, I would buy this...
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=3DN82E16811112064
>=20
>=20
>=20
> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 17:22 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Dan wrote:
> >=20
> > >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 ca=
rds
> > >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 ha=
ve 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 NV=
IDIA
> > >nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX.
> > >
> > >What are other users of mdadm using with the PCI-express cards, most c=
ost
> > >effective solution?
> > >
> > There may still be m/b available with multiple PCI busses. Don't know i=
f=20
> > you are interested in a low budget solution, but that would address=20
> > bandwidth and use existing hardware.
> >=20
> > Idle curiousity: what kind of case are you using for the drives? I will=
=20
> > need to spec a machine with eight drives in the December-January timefr=
ame.
> >=20

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