> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 22 12:09:44 2000
>
> Alvin Oga wrote:
> >
> > anybody out there building 500Gb raid5 boxes in 1U chassis ???
>
> That'd be quite a trick. You'd need 6 100 GB hard disks or 8 73 GB hard
> disks to pull that off. Just getting all those disks into a 1 U chassis
> along with a power supply, motherboard, cooling fans, disk controller,
> cabling and who knows what else would be very sketchy. You could do it
> as an external RAID box connected to the CPU in another 1 U box, but
> everything in 1 U is probably all but impossible at the moment.
The best I've been able to accomplish in 1U is 160gb RAID 5 or
80gb RAID 1 with a hot spare. That's with 80gb Maxtor IDE drives
and 3WARE IDE RAID cards.
I imagine that I could double this in a 2U enclosure. If someone
wanted to stash a LOT of storage in a small space, I imagine the
best way to do it would involve creating a custom chassis with a
LOT of PCMCIA slots and just stash tons of the highest density
PCMCIA hard drives you can find into it. 8-)
Cheers,
C
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