My current 15 drive RAID-6 server is built around a KT600 board with an AMD Sempron processor and 4 SATA150TX4 cards. It does the job but it's not the fastest thing around (takes about 10 hours to do a check of the array or about 15 to do a rebuild).
What kind of enclosure do you have this in? I also subscribe to the "almost commodity hardware" philosophy, however I've not been able to find a case that comfortably takes even 8 drives. (The Stacker is an absolute nightmare ...) Even most rackable cases stop at 6 3.5" drive bays -- either that or they are dedicated storage racks with integrated hw RAID and fiber SCSI interconnect --> definitely not commodity. Thanks, C. - 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
