Re: I need a PCI V2.1 4 port SATA card

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Gordon Henderson wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Christian Pernegger wrote:
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>>I also subscribe to the "almost commodity hardware" philosophy,
>>however I've not been able to find a case that comfortably takes even
>>8 drives. (The Stacker is an absolute nightmare ...) Even most
>>rackable cases stop at 6 3.5" drive bays -- either that or they are
>>dedicated storage racks with integrated hw RAID and fiber SCSI
>>interconnect --> definitely not commodity.
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>I've used these:
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>  http://www.acme-technology.co.uk/acm338.htm
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>(8 drives in a 3U case), and their variants
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>eg:
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>  http://www.acme-technology.co.uk/acm312.htm
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>(12 disks in a 3U case)
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Interesting ad, with a masonic emblem, and a picture of a white case 
with a note saying it's only available in black. Of course the hardware 
may be perfectly fine, but I wouldn't count on color.

>for several years with good results. Not the cheapest on the block though,
>but never had any real issues with them.
>
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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979