On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Helge Deller <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03.12.2017 20:00, John David Anglin wrote: >> On 2017-12-03, at 1:45 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >>> Anyone have a good place to buy replacement disks? >> >> >> Helge has bought quite a few used drives on eBay in Germany. That's not so >> easy in Canada >> as many sources don't ship to Canada. > > Yes, I bought regularily on ebay.de, many of those ship to Canada too. > > But maybe you should consider buying a SATA PCI Controller and a SATA SSD > drive instead. > You need an IDE or SCSI drive for booting, but the other things can run from > the > SSD drive then. Due to low latency it's much faster than any SCSI drive. > In phantom (a C8000 machine) we have a "Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 > [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller". > It works nicely under Linux, the only bad thing is that it doesn't forward > the TRIM commands. > So, maybe another Linux-supported SATA PCI controller would be better.
My rp3410 doesn't have space for much inside, but I bet I could stick an SSD inside. Any clue what I might be able to get as a SATA PCI controller that would work? I might also buy 2 more LVD drives to fill the chasis. Cheers, Carlos.
