On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jon Hardcastle <jd_hardcastle@xxxxxxxxx> 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! For the drives you could get a few big enclosures: http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_enclosures/sat122urd.asp http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_enclosures/scsas16rm.asp I don't think these offer PMP (port multiplexer) support. I would look for ones that did if you're serious about doing something like this. If you used PMP with 4x drives per sata port, you would only need 9 sata ports in the PC to control the 36 drives. Not sure what the limits of PMP is, but 4x seems reasonable to me. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
