On 02/03/2016 01:15 AM, thibaut noah wrote:
I think i misunderstood what you guys said about jbod (my fault for reading quickly), i talked about the jbod feature, not a hardware piece. My disks are sitting in my desktop, if i buy an external storage for the disks i might as well build a nas, which is what i do not want, i'm looking for internal connection not external. was crawlking lsi and highpoint cards, cards between 200 to 300+$$, not really what i call cheaper stuff that's aimed at Winblows users ;)
Putting 6 or 8 drives inside your chassis is really not a normal situation. Are you sure your power supply can handle it? You also mentioned somewhere that you have several GPUs and such. That would tax your power supply even more. Remember, spinning drives eat a lot of power when first "spun up". I recommended a JBOD for the reason that it eliminates the need for a gazillion SATA or SAS connectors on your motherboard, cleans up the cabling and doesn't put a ridiculous load on your power supply. As to building a NAS, you'd need a motherboard with the same number of connectors, huge power supply, and all the drives to build your NAS and yeah, it's a right pain to build. With the JBOD, you need the HBA (one PCI slot), the JBOD and the drives and all of this is easily transferable to your new system when the new motherboard you want comes out. It'd be faster than a NAS as well as supporting native file systems with all the ACLs, permissions and goodies (NFS and CIFS don't support that well). Regarding the new motherboard, will it have all the SATA/SAS connectors you need to drive this array or are you going to be in the same boat as you are now? <snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Overweight: When you step on your dog's tail...and it dies. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
