Also know that I don't have the EN-8700 hot-swap module.
Getting this option may allay some of my concerns below.
http://enlightcorp.com/server_cases/8950_server.shtml
http://enlightcorp.com/data_storage/8700.shtml
-Z
>
> 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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