On Mon October 26 2009, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > > > 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. A guy I know got a SuperMicro SC846E1-R900B case. 24 hotswap per chassis, with the capability to chain in more of them to the same SAS adapter. Rather impressive. I can't afford a $1200 case though, not yet. > -- > 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 > -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@xxxxxxx -- 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
