On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> Is it even possible to have >4 IDE disks? I know the performance > would be terrible but I have considered this and realised it is > irrelevant since the box only has a 10Mbit connection (it's for storing > large data files (videos, etc.)). Yes - you many also want to look at 3ware their IDE cards (which can handle 4 8 or 16 disks). That is an easy/cheap way to add some IDE disks to your machine. See http://www.ironsystems.com/ and ASA computers for some inspiration and configs. We've used the latter for 'cheap' but low quality storage in the 0.5-2Tb for things like large datafiles. For certain things it can be very effective and under the 5k sort of value. Dw _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"