From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: I need a PCI V2.1 4 port SATA card Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:45:09 -0400 Message-ID: <44A41FB5.5060407@tmr.com> References: <200606280245.k5S2jkB24340@www.watkins-home.com> <44A205BC.90808@wasp.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Gordon Henderson Cc: Christian Pernegger , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Gordon Henderson wrote: >On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > > >>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. >> >> > >I've used these: > > http://www.acme-technology.co.uk/acm338.htm > >(8 drives in a 3U case), and their variants > >eg: > > http://www.acme-technology.co.uk/acm312.htm > >(12 disks in a 3U case) > > 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. > -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979