Check out http://www.akiwa.com/news.asp and their rack mount cases. They have some new ones that are quite nice and the price is pretty good for what they include. I would call them for up todate pricing, but when I called it was very competitive. (I think the 12 bay without power supply was about $300 or $400, but that was a while ago.
The other place to check is www.rackmountpro.com. Their new RM2008, RM3012, and RM4016 are priced at ($789, $899, $1300 with power supply). That's what I have found so far. A tower will be a lot cheaper then rack mount. One thing to look at is if you really need the hot swap drive caddies, if you don't it can save you a bundle of money just getting a standard case with space for 12 drives. Hope it helps Chris G. On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, David Lawn wrote: > I'm looking to do something similar here but the major obstacle I've found > so far is in finding a reasonably priced chassis that will hold 12 ide > drives. I am on quite a strict budget but I'd prefer it to be rack mountable > if I can get one cheap enough, otherwise a tower etc would do. > Any suggestions? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2003 11:12 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: IDE Raid Controller concerns > > > I've got a couple questions related to IDE raid that if I could get some > feed back on, I would really appreciate it. > > A little bit ago, we suffered from a single drive (in software raid 5) > causing data corruption and poluting the array before being ejected. This > made almost all the data on the raid invalid and unusable. We knew that > this was probably going to happen sooner or later, but I started wondering > about hardware based raid cards, and if they would handle this any better. > > I'm looking at a raid to have a 12x120 gig 7200 RPM ide drive setup. 11 > drives in the array, and the 12th drive as the spare. > > Controller wise we are looking at the 3Ware Escalade 7506-12 card, but I > have never seen this card in action, and I have no idea how it might > handle the above problem. > > If any of you have used this card, what have your thoughts been? What > problems did you run into? Do you recommend a different card in the same > price range ($400 to $600)? > > Thanks for any help you might be able to offer. > > Chris G. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
