On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:12:43AM -1000, Kanoa Withington wrote: > I routinely build 11 disk software arrays in Dell 420 > workstations with promise controllers and maxtor drives. Using > 80gig drives I get about 800gig ea. @ level 5 in a relatively > compact box. They have a space in the upper rear that can be > easily modified to hold an extra 4 drive bracket, the same as > the one used in the front of the box. If you wanted to drill > some holes, each bracket could be further modified to hold an > extra disk for a total of 13. The power supply puts out more > than enough to spin up eleven 5,400 rpm IDE disks at once. The > cost and reliability is good, though at RAID 5, I/O is low and > CPU load high but acceptable for what I use them for. Heat is > acceptable with the lower speed disks, the 420 is well > ventilated, but I attatch an extra fan to a convenient spot on > the back anyway for extra cooling. I have three of these in > production under substantual load and haven't had any problems > with them yet. Which filesystem do you use? (If it's ext2, how long does an fsck take?) Andrew Klaassen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
