Jon Hardcastle <jd_hardcastle@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hey guys, How do you know if your machine can handle adding some more drives to it? How can you check that there is enough BUS IO to handle extra sata cards and also that the machine is powerful enough to support say an 8 drive raid 5...
A) Try & error.
B) look up the speed of the bus and half it. Any bandwidth left?
make sure the cpu isn't at 100% already as well
MfG
Goswin
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