On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, David Douthitt wrote:

> I'm starting to accumulate 400-600M hard drives... I'm up to about 12
> :)
> 
> I've been wanting to turn them into a RAID array - in the ORIGINAL
> sense - Rendundant Array of *Inexpensive* Disks :)  What's the best
> hardware to do this?  Are there cabinets for 12 3.5" IDE drives?
> 
> Just curious....

AFAIK IDE has never supported this kind of thing well, because of the star
connection architecture.  SCSI is preferred for lots of reasons.

I think there ARE IDE interfaces like this, but I DON'T think they are
_inexpensive_. :)

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