One important point which I don't think was brought up in this lengthy thread yet is power requirements of the drives. If you have more than ~4 drives, consider the spin-up power load on the system. In a "normal" system, without any special drive controllers, the drives all power-up and spin-up at system power-on... which can be fairly hefty -- no number n front of me, sorry. Many of the specialized hardware-RAID controllers are able to power-up the drives in seuence instead of all at once. So check out the drive specs and your system power, and be aware than most system components, esp. drives, take more power when they first turn on. For the edge cases, this can cause "bounce" in system power levels which can be a pain to troubleshoot. Heads-up ;^)
ciao,
Ben
On 2/7/06, Michael Miller <
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That is very nice if you want something to go and you have the network
bandwidth.
I am thinking of getting one of these.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817121404 and of
of these http://froogle.google.com/froogle_cluster?q=3ware+SATA+II&pid=4869034325608349658&oid=16800414005532181511&btnG=Search+Froogle&lmode=&addr=&scoring=mrd&hl=en
plus 5 500 Gig SATA II drives with 16 Meg buffer.
Sorry for the long URL.
Mike Miller
On 2/7/06, Mr O < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Infrant.com - I just can't stop drooling.
>
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