> > I use a hot-swap sata enclosure for my disk backup. Mine is installed in > > one 5.25" slot, elsewhere I have used an external esata version of the > > same thing. Cheap and gives me the full native speed of the disk. > > I have one of those 4-in-3 bay converters, 4 hotswap 3.5" bays, in 3 5.25" > bays. Really rather nice. Probably get another one later. When I first went to SATA disks, I picked up a 12 bay multilane enclosure from Norcotek coupled with a Highpoint SAS RAID controller. It was a disaster. With a small number of drives in the enclosure, and with some fiddling, I could get the system to be fairly stable. Once I went beyond 6 disks, however, it was an unending nightmare of problems. I tried everything, including gutting the Infiniband adapters and putting in port multipliers, switching to mdadm. Right about a year ago, I scrapped the Norcotek enclosure and picked up a 12 bay port multiplier enclosure from PC PitStop. I've been thrilled with it. They have a 20 bay enclosure which I believe I am going to get to facilitate my next expansion, early next year. -- 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
