On 03.12.2017 22:17, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > 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.
Ah... rp3410 doesn't has much space inside.... Our panama buildd is a rp3410 too, and I refrained from adding a SSD to it. > 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. Yes, buy 2 LVD drives.... Helge
