-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/08 10:52, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Damon L. Chesser wrote: >> Having done support for a tier1 OEM, I found >> many of our customers (running Linux) ignored the raid controllers and >> used them as disk controllers and then used software raid. > > This would be fine, I don't really care if it's a hardware or software > RAID, although it seems like a waste of money to buy a hardware RAID > card just to use as a dense SATA controller. Is there such a thing as a > SATA controller just for lots of drives? One that supports, say, 8 or > more drives and is supported by the linux kernel out of the box? All I > really want is to be able to have big-time data density in a single > machine. > > ...That is, unless someone knows a good and cheap way to have big-time > data density outside the machine. The other option I'm looking at is a > NAS, but it seems to me that the cheaper solution is to build a storage > server myself instead. > > My biggest hurdle here is that I have absolutely no experience with SANs > or NASs, and I have a short period of time to get my proposal in, so I > was planning on going with what I know will work: a big, fat case from > rackmountpro.com with a hardware RAID card and 24 friggin' drives.
I don't think there are any non-RAID high-density PCIe controllers. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH4UiGS9HxQb37XmcRAjAvAJ9viFh+1W2742gpdSKuHPRKr2ftKQCcDTUU RlEf+py6L8LPEFtnbqYBKMg= =EafC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]