hi ya "raid" yuppers...you're right... maxtor does have 160GB... $ 300 http://www.maxtordirect.com/product.asp?sku=1849773 and for entertainment.. ( mostly mine ) ... not very big at all... but, hey Maxtor is real(public) company :-) http://www.shareholder.com/maxtor/news/20000918-67074.cfm Seagate has a 180Gb SCSI-3 but is insanely priced http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/index ( i wonder how how it'd get inside a 1U case ... Western digital is up to 120GB - $360 http://store.westerndigital.com/ promise.com had a link to 200Gb drives.. http://www.promise.com/PressRoom/FT100Advanced/FT100prodlaunch_v3.htm ( the (now) dead link :-( ... and even at 102GB/160GB disks... its a major "pita" to get it all working.. and nope...you dont wanna e2fsck them drives... :-) thanx alvin http://www.Linux-1U.net/Disks .. ata vs SCSI ... based on the PIO and DMA clock timing... why is DMA so much faster??? http://developer.intel.com/design/intarch/techinfo/430tx/idetim.htm On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 raid@ddx.a2000.nu wrote: > > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > http://www.1U-Raid5.net ... collecting raid stuff .. > > hmms looked on the site : > > 1U Raid5[tm] Servers > > 8 drives at 200Gb per disks ===>> 1.6TeraByte 1U Raid5[tm] Servers > > > 200GB disks ??? > > thought 160GB Maxtor was the max ?? > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html