From: Christopher Smith <csmith@nighthawkrad.net>
To: Tyler <pml@dtbb.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Best way to achieve large, expandable, cheap storage?
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:19:17 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4340A335.7070502@nighthawkrad.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <433F8792.6040106@dtbb.net>
Tyler wrote:
> What case and power supply(s)are you using? What raid cards are you
> using also?
The case is a no-name job I picked up from a local PC seller:
http://www.pcicase.com.au/sub_files01.htm
It's main attraction to me was the large number of 5.25" drive bays.
The PSU is just a bog-standard 450W Antec (although since I've recently
ugpraded the machine to dual Xeons, I should get a beefier unit).
Currently the machine has 2xPromise S150 TX4. Previously, as the 120GB
drives were PATA, it also had a Promise TX4000. However, since that
card wouldn't work with a 2.6 kernel, I used it as an excuse to get more
drives and upgrade to a newer distro :). The TX4s are 32 bit, 66Mhz PCI
cards and are in 64/133Mhz PCI-X slots, so they handle four 7200rpm SATA
drives each quite well. I toyed with getting a single 8 port SATA card,
but all the ones I've seen are full-blown hardware RAID, making them
quite expensive and since I use software RAID and have 5 PCI-X slots on
the motherboard, not worth it. I'll run out of physical space in the
case before I run out of PCI-X slots to drop 4-port cards into.
CS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-03 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-30 13:20 Best way to achieve large, expandable, cheap storage? Robin Bowes
2005-09-30 13:29 ` Robin Bowes
2005-09-30 18:28 ` Brad Dameron
2005-09-30 19:20 ` Dan Stromberg
2005-09-30 18:16 ` Gregory Seidman
2005-09-30 18:34 ` Andy Smith
2005-10-02 4:36 ` Christopher Smith
2005-10-02 7:09 ` Tyler
2005-10-03 3:19 ` Christopher Smith [this message]
2005-10-03 16:33 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-10-04 4:09 ` Christopher Smith
2005-10-20 10:23 ` Robin Bowes
2005-10-20 11:19 ` Gregory Seidman
2005-10-20 11:41 ` Robin Bowes
2005-10-21 4:42 ` Christopher Smith
2005-10-21 16:48 ` Gil
2005-10-21 20:08 ` Robin Bowes
2005-10-21 4:40 ` Christopher Smith
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-27 19:12 Andrew Burgess
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