Greg,
I do have a Promise Ultra133-tx2 PCI card to use if necessary for whatever
PATA drives I choose.
While I do know that the 440BX does not support 48 bit LBA by default, I
believe its' final bios (CR) did/does. I'll recheck. In any case, I use
the 48 bit registry tool to enable LBA in w2k because it seems that sp4
turns it off(?).
No Gbit enet yet. Still 100Mbit. Have been looking at a pair of Gbit 8-port
switches, but just can not quite grapple with a wholesale upgrade of all my
nics. Only use Intel nics. Ths last time I tested the on-board Gbit nics
on my N-Fforce 2 m/b's, I was not happy with the performance. LAN upgrade
will have to wait.
I do sorta understand what you've done, but, as usual you are a universe
above my simple needs. You do offer a growth path, but Dang! A bit extreme
don't you think? LOL!
No, no reason not to use RAID10; other than I do not have much raid
experience. The only raid I have is the 3x hd raid-5 in my dual p3-1GB
server. One day I will get back to further raid studies.
Best,
Duncan
At 19:20 12/11/2007 -0600, Greg wrote:
You're going to need an add-in PCI card anyway. The 440BX in that BX6 board
only supported ATA33, and didn't support 48bit LBA. Hence, no drives > 128GB
are supported. The OS may be able to override this, but would you trust it?
Plus, assuming you're using gigabit, your interface is going to limit your
throughput.
2 hot spares for 4 spindles is a little overkill. I generally only use one
HS unless the spindle count is > 15. (ie: the smallish 30-spindle EMC SAN I
just deployed has 2 hotspares, which is actually more than EMC's recommended
1 per 30). Any reason why you wouldn't just use RAID10?
Greg
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> Subject: [H] big hd opinions?
>
> Ready to build my NAS. The m/b is a very old Abit BX6 r2.0 with an
> Intel
> P2-450. And I want it to run headless; like a humming box (appliance)
> in
> the corner! I suspect this puts SATA drives out of class ATM, unless I
> try
> some PATA/SATA adapters. This is possible; but was really planning to
> use
> PATA drives due to the m/b's age.
>
> The OS will be some flavor of the current NASLite series. Can not
> decide
> which version to buy ATM.
>
> Looking for opinions and/or user experience with the crop of >100GB
> hard
> drives. The plan is to try 4x 500GB drives. 2 hot, 2 as hot spares.
>
> Opinions welcome.
> Best,
> Duncan
