On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 jlewis@lewis.org wrote: > ... > > What sorts of cases are you using that allow for mounting 12 drives close > > enough to the controller for all the cables to reach? > > I was looking at a rack mount case today, that would let me put 23 drives > in a 7" high case. All those cables should reach with standard 18" > cables. > > About 450 bucks for the case, and around 900 for the adapters. > 3ware has modified hardware that allows it to drive longer ide cables ( that exceed the 18" cable length ) 3ware has a 8-port ide card ... for 8 master ide disks but its still on one pci buss ( i think thats the bottle neck ) if you have 12, 26 ide disks... you'd need a 2nd pci slot...but again on the one pci buss... 8 disks ( 160GB each ) is 1TeraByte of data that can be moving back and forth on that pci buss... i think it'd be better to put one ide controller ( like the 3-ware ) into one motherboard... and use a different server for the next 8 disks -- am looking for benchmarks of 8-24-48 hard disks systems we have 8-drive 1U chassis - cabling is an issue... due to 18" maximum but so far, we havent seen any major problems w/ the 24" and 26" length cables.. http://www.Linux-1U.net/Dwg/jpg.sm/c2610.jpg thanx alvin - 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
