From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Scobie Subject: Re: How to configure 36 disks ? Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:33:49 +1300 Message-ID: <49C7D60D.6090901@sauce.co.nz> References: <174852.24274.qm@web51309.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <174852.24274.qm@web51309.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jon@eHardcastle.com Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List List-Id: linux-raid.ids Jon Hardcastle wrote: > I'd like to understand how you even go attaching that many devices to a system.. I am 'comparatively' new to this.. and have a 6 raid5 system.. not enterprise.. and i have slammed into case/power/sat slot issues already. What sort of hardware must one use to grow to a 36 array system! A reasonably economical option is a SAS controller like the LSISAS3442E-R or LSISAS3801E in conjunction with enclosures like these that can be daisychained together. http://www.aicipc.com/ProductList.aspx?ref=RSC and http://www.aicipc.com/ProductList.aspx?ref=XJ Regards, Richard