I have a case what will fit seven HD in standard bays. Than I have four bays of 5.25 for DVD/CD drives, so I bought this; http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16841101035 leaving me one 5.25 left for the fan. In addition to the fan in the item above, I have the exhaust fan on the Power Supply, another 12mm exhaust fan and a 12mm intake that blows across the other HDs. This is my current case, with a little mod for an extra drive; http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811133133 I have ten drives in it now. Two in a RAID1 for the OS and eight in a RAID6. If I were to do it again, I would buy this... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811112064 On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 17:22 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Dan wrote: > > >I have been using an older 64bit system, socket 754 for a while now. It has > >the old PCI bus 33Mhz. I have two low cost (no HW RAID) PCI SATA I cards > >each with 4 ports to give me an eight disk RAID 6. I also have a Gig NIC, > >on the PCI bus. I have Gig switches with clients connecting to it at Gig > >speed. > > > >As many know you get a peak transfer rate of 133 MB/s or 1064Mb/s from that > >PCI bus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_Interconnect > > > >The transfer rate is not bad across the network but my bottle neck it the > >PCI bus. I have been shopping around for new MB and PCI-express cards. I > >have been using mdadm for a long time and would like to stay with it. I am > >having trouble finding an eight port PCI-express card that does not have all > >the fancy HW RAID which jacks up the cost. I am now considering using a MB > >with eight SATA II slots onboard. GIGABYTE GA-M59SLI-S5 Socket AM2 NVIDIA > >nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX. > > > >What are other users of mdadm using with the PCI-express cards, most cost > >effective solution? > > > There may still be m/b available with multiple PCI busses. Don't know if > you are interested in a low budget solution, but that would address > bandwidth and use existing hardware. > > Idle curiousity: what kind of case are you using for the drives? I will > need to spec a machine with eight drives in the December-January timeframe. >
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