Hmm...I didn't have a similar experience with the DS-500. Easy to configure with w2k3, runs very fast. YMMV.
Cheers. -----Original Message----- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations I have a Norco DS-1240 for some super non important data sliced out over LVM with iSCSI on CentOS. POS in every way. Tech support sucks, and they know it sucks, its not worth the money. Although supporting SATA II, the interference in the design of the backplane is so bad, you have to jump the drives down to SATA I. Certain features don't work in my "version" of hardware, so lame. Stay away from that crappy company. jlc -----Original Message----- From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lists Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations I've got two of these; http://www.norcotek.com/DS-500.php One with 5 - 750gb SATA drives, the other with 5 - 1TB SATA drives. Comes with a 4channel PCI RAID card. Stomps it does. Cheers. -----Original Message----- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations The handle is surprisingly handy. No that I carry it around much, but when I have taken it ouf of a bag to be placed near a system - its been very nice! The one annoying thing about the unit it the beeps it makes when it is turned on. I beleive there is a button on the back for it, but I haven't taken the time to look into it. I honestly dont know why the chose the beep tone that they did. But like you said, the price is right so I really have no complaints! On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Sam Cayze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perfect, and the price is right! > > Oddly enough, I'm sold on the handle :) > > Thanks, > > Sam > > -----Original Message----- > From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:56 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OT: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Sam Cayze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> You guys using any? > > I recently bought a eSATA/USB2 two-drive enclosure hot-swap RAID-1 > enclosure. Its just strictly RAID. No interface at all. Just dip > switches. Its a small unit and has a nifty handle on the top for > carrying. The enclosure itself was ~$160, and I picked up a couple of > 500gb drives for it from Amazon for ~$75 each. > > I've been using the rig for about a month now and am quite happy with > it. > > Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB Caviar Sata 7200 Rpm 16MB Cache SATA > Drive: > > <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RT5AE0?&tag=espinola-20> > > eSATA & USB RAID Enclosure - DS3RPRO: > > <http://www.usb-ware.com/esata-usb-raid-2-drive-ds3rpro.htm> > > > > -- > ME2 > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
