Ok, I've been looking around some more. I like the flexibility of having the disks external to the "head" computer. Looks like AoE is not quite ready for the prime time yet. SCSI seems overpriced for what you get. eSATA looks sweet. Sonnet makes an 8-channel eSATA controller, PCI-X, using the Marvell 6081 chipset. Supported in 2.6.14. About $275. <http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo-x_esata8.html> Addonics makes a 4-channel eSATA controller, also PCI-X, using the Sil 3124 chipset, also supported in 2.6.14. About $90. <http://addonics.com/products/host_controller/adsa3gx4r-e.asp> Anyone know of any other PCI-X multi-channel eSATA controllers? There's also the option of getting a regular (non-external) SATA controller and the little SATA-to-eSATA converters, but I'd prefer to cut down on the number of in-line connectors. There are lots of eSATA enclosures available, holding from 1 to 8 drives. Here's just one example: <http://www.macgurus.com/productpages/sata/hotswapsatakits.php>. However, none of the enclosures I've found have redundant power supplies. I'm thinking to use RAID-6, and a pile of 2x enclosures, so if a power supply goes I lose just 2 disks and my array stays up. If I can find an 8x enclosure with redundant power supplies that would be preferable. Does anyone have any experience with any eSATA enclosures, good or bad? Comments? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
