Brad Dameron wrote:
Might look at a Areca SATA RAID controller. They support up to 24 ports
and has hardware level RAID capacity expansion. Or if you want to go
cheaper look at the 3ware controller and use it in JBOD. That way you
can get the Smart monitoring and hotplug.
Here is the server I built with 3TB usable for pretty cheap.
All this was from www.8anet.com
Supermicro SC933T-R760 3u or SC932T-R760 rackmount Chassis with 15 SATA
Hot-Swap drive trays and triple redundant power supplies.
Any motherboard and CPU will do. I would recommend a AMD64 CPU with a
motherboard that has a PCI-X slot on it if possible. I used a Tyan S2468
with dual Athlon 2800's and 2GB.
A 3ware 9500S-12. Not the 9500S-12MI with this case. Or the new
9550SX-12 which is much faster now.
12 - 300GB Maxtor MaXLine III drives
2 - Western Digital 36GB 10k drives
I use the 2 36GB drives mirrored for the OS since I had the extra slots.
Could of went with a Areca 16 port card instead. But I already had the
3ware laying around. I went with the 300GB Maxtor drives because at the
time they were the ones that had SATAII NCQ (Native Command Queuing) and
16MB cache. This setup is very fast and I use it as a NFS server for
backing up my main servers. I currently have about 20% left out of 3TB.
Time to add another one.
The only part of the hardware I would change is the CPU setup, a single
dual core setup seems more cost and heat effective now. The controller
is fine, but that just gets better with time as new stuff comes out.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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