RE: [IMail Forum] off topic: IDE Harddisk limitation

[Brian Politis]

Actually, I was intrigued enough to lookup the prices on the IDE Raid controllers (I'm building a monster home system).  I don't know of any SCSI boards available for under 130 bucks.  And with 18gig IDE drives available on the cheap, you could probably save some major cash.

 

Still, I'd be hard pressed to use one in a server...

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cal Frye
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 11:29 AM
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Of course, this starts to sound like real money, in which case, why not go SCSI? More choices, more availability, more compatibility...... not much more money in the long run.

 

--Cal Frye, Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 3:48 AM
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The taiwanese are doing some boards that support several disks, even do RAID with atapi.  Take a look at www.promise.com, www.centos.com.tw,  www.siig.com to see if you can some happiness there.  These are just URL's I've come across, no personal experience.

It's going to cost you money, and if you need that many disks, it's probably important data, so you should probably buy spare boards, too, since you don't find these specialty items at every corner shop.

Len

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Hi,
 
I just wanna ask if anyone on list has setup their NT servers with IDE harddisks.  How do we setup more than 4 Harddisk on a computer?  I only got 2 ports for each Primary and Secondary cables.  Each has its own Master and Slave.  Is there something I should buy?