John wrote:
I think you are going to have problems.Not necessarily. This setup is intended to store data for legacy projects that are currently taking up valuable real estate on some Sun storage arrays, which handle the bulk of the workload. The data on the IDE disks would be read much more than written.
I presume you want to do lots of I/O.
Two ATA drives on one IDE port do
Correct. I read (after I sent the first message) that the card has two IDE ports, which upon reflection I think I'd only want to connect two disks to. Doing so would still leave two unused IDE interfaces on the onboard RAID and two "regular" ones on the motherboard, so I could add two 120 GB disks to the IDE RAID ports, two 160 GB disks to the Promise card, my 20 GB root disk to IDE0, and all of the devices would still be masters on their port...I think. ;) Please let me know if I'm glossing over anything.not work well, you cannot drive them both at once.
The case I am looking at is an Antec Plus 1080 SOHO file server case with 430W power supply. I plan to have 2 more fans in addition to the two already included. Seems like there is plenty of room for cables and whatnot, although I haven't seen the case first hand. If anyone has seen one of these and can comment, please do.With all those ribbon cables around, ventilation is going to be doubtful. Sure, you can cut and tie them, but people here who know about electronics will counsel against that. Hello, Jo?
I need cheap, proven stuff, which throws SATA out. If I had the cash, I wouldn't be looking into this setup right now, I'd do more planning and testing. Cheetah flips happen a lot more places than just Red Hat! ;)I recommend you use SCSI or (Maybe) Serial ATA. SCSI is the proven performer, SATA is the new kid on the block.
Tom
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