On September 29, 2004 02:14 pm, "J. Rafael SÃnchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Niels, > If you were to setup a sw raid instead, how would you go about > accommodating 12 200G drives. I'm thinking IDE for cost reasons, hopefully > serial ata too. And, have you heard about the Intel based RAID chip sets? > A 12 port 3ware Escalade 9500s. You would want a motherboard with PCI-X support though.
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