Re: Re: 19" Rack "thing" to house drives?

[Stuart Poulton <swp@xxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

It's perfectly do-able in fact this was exactly what I did before building =
mt super server I posted about a couple of days ago.

So points to remeber

1) If using master & slave drives to reduce the number of IDE channel, =
remember a failure of the slave drive will render then master drive
un-usable.

2) Ensure you get a big enough PSU, for 8 drives your looking at 460W plus<= BR>
3) IDE is NOT hotswapable.

4) Ensure there is adequate case cooling.

There are IDE RAID cards that allow 8 drives connected to it, to make them =
appear as 1 single scsi drive to 8 single scsi drives.

Any questions feel free to ask

Cheers

Stuart

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, drownedrat wrote:

> Yup. Network Storage Servers.
>
> Not cheap (as in =A3Ks!!). Dabs et al. sell em.
>
> I've got a link somewhere for building one I'll try todig out.
>
> A
>
> --- In ukha_d@y..., "Mark McCall" <mark@a...> wrote: > > It would be nice to have some sort of box where I could easily sw= ap
> > dives in and out with caddies.  A big row of drives in a box= that
> just
> > plugs into the LAN.
> >
> > Does such a thing exist?
> >
> > Thanks
k

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