[zfs-discuss] Re: Karma Re: Re: Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-15 Thread Tom Kimes
Here's a start for a suggested equipment list: Lian Li case with 17 drive bays (12 3.5 , 5 5.25) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682064 Asus M2N32-WS motherboard has PCI-X and PCI-E slots. I'm using Nevada b64 for iSCSI targets:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Karma Re: Re: Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-15 Thread Neal Pollack
Tom Kimes wrote: Here's a start for a suggested equipment list: Lian Li case with 17 drive bays (12 3.5 , 5 5.25) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682064 So it only has room for one power supply. How many disk drives will you be installing? It's not the steady

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Karma Re: Re: Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-15 Thread mike
On 6/15/07, Brian Hechinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, that's an interesting point. I remember the old days of having to stagger startup for large drives (physically large, not capacity large). Can that be done with SATA? I had to link 2 600w power supplies together to be able to power

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Karma Re: Re: Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-15 Thread Will Murnane
On 6/15/07, Brian Hechinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 02:27:18PM -0700, Neal Pollack wrote: So it only has room for one power supply. How many disk drives will you be installing? It's not the steady state current that matters, as much as it is the ability to handle