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| Thread ID: 111655 | 2010-08-05 22:36:00 | Would like opinions for storage device | nedkelly (9059) | Press F1 |
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| 1124944 | 2010-08-05 22:36:00 | I have a 7 SCSI CD drive tower given to me a while ago and finally decided to do something with it, and am going to make it a storage device. This is what it looks like right now. picasaweb.google.com Have two ideas in mind: 1. Run an atom board with a SATA raid card for redundancy purposes and 6 sata drives. 2. Or Just have 6 sata drives using one of these each. ascent.co.nz Opinions please. |
nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1124945 | 2010-08-05 23:50:00 | One of theses ascent.co.nz Actually, at $76 bucks, I might get one myself for an old server! Interesting how they only go up to 4 ports, need server class for more! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1124946 | 2010-08-05 23:57:00 | Can get a 8 port Highpoint for around $650!, though probably isnt VMWare friendly! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1124947 | 2010-08-06 00:07:00 | So you think option 1? Also which raid would be the best to use? With that card how many raid arrays can I make? Was originally thinking of using Raid 5 with 3 drives on logical drive and the same with the other 3 |
nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1124948 | 2010-08-06 00:38:00 | So you think option 1? Also which raid would be the best to use? With that card how many raid arrays can I make? Was originally thinking of using Raid 5 with 3 drives on logical drive and the same with the other 3 Do you have to have 6 drives, most mATX are only 4 port and you could use onboard RAID (software).. However for $76 extra you could have hardware RAID of up to 4 RAID 5 parity and use the onboard for mirror or both RAID 5 |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1124949 | 2010-08-06 00:43:00 | Well the unit has 7X 5.25" drive slots, and Itx boards seem to only have 2 sata ports | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1124950 | 2010-08-06 01:10:00 | Well the unit has 7X 5.25" drive slots, and Itx boards seem to only have 2 sata ports So, you will need the add-on card for 4 of the drives....and wont be able to do all 6 together, or you will have to shell out for an 8 port $650 card! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1124951 | 2010-08-06 01:40:00 | yeah did not think I could have all 6 be one drive | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1124952 | 2010-08-27 01:54:00 | Sorry for the bump but thought it would be best to just continue on with the same thread. I have the board I am going to use now, and want to decide what raid to use for the 4 sata drives on the raid card (when I get it) |
nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1124953 | 2010-08-27 02:18:00 | Raid 5 will give best capacity with fault tolerance so the 4th drive is the parity, so you get 3 x HDD capacity, RAID 10 the best performance with fault tolerance so 2 HDD capacity and RAID 0 the best performance with no fault tolerance | SolMiester (139) | ||
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