I'm sitting right now on an Enlight 8950, equiped with a K6-500
driving eight 40G drives and a CD.
Pros:
Nice case with good airflow
Cheap (best price I found was at www.mwave.com. Good service as well)
Tons(!) of internal space.
Cons:
Long. Almost too long for IDE drives, my 80-pin cables have zero
slack. Ok for SCSI. Reason for length: the case was built
to fit in rackmount situations as well.
Cover rotates but falls off easily. They have a flawed hinge design
on the cover that pushes it off the frame when the door
is opened more than half way.
Leds are so recessed that only dead on viewing can allow you to monitor
all activity on the machine. This is whine and I admit it,
but it's a pain to keep leaning over when you're trying to
debug whether a suspect disk is responding to accesses or not.
Not the best solution for hot-swap. While the drives are on glides,
you pretty much have to remove the side cover to unplug them.
A case with a fixed SCSI backplane would be much nicer for this.
Hope this helps.
-Z
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> Supply problems with Intel server gear forced us to hunt around for
> alternative sources for hardware, and in our searching I found the Enlight
> 8950 chassis and Enlight EN-8700 hot swap drive array module. This looks
> roughly comparable to an AstorII chassis, with the benefit of having a
> rackmount kit available and redundant power as an option. Has anyone
> tried one of these out? I'm considering the 8950 with 8700 paired with an
> Intel N440BX and Mylex Acceleraid 250 (will run Red Hat 6.2 doing HW RAID1
> or RAID5...and perhaps even an NT server for our accounting people).
>
> I found that Micron is selling this case/array with the somewhat more
> expensive L440GX+ board...so I'm assuming it must work and not be too bad.
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