[lug] Cheap centralized storage

[Erick Bodine]

Set up my brother-in-law w/ IDE Raid on an Abit MoBo...160MB of mp3
storage...works like a dream.

--ERick

-----Original Message-----
From: Orion Poplawski [mailto:orion at colorado-research.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 3:38 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: RE: [lug] Cheap centralized storage

On Thursday 31 October 2002 12:00 pm, you wrote:
> From: "Sexton, George" <gsexton at mhsoftware.com>
> To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Subject: RE: [lug] Cheap centralized storage
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:00:36 -0700
> Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>
> You could look at something like the Adaptec 2400 raid controller. It
has 4
> IDE controller ports for a total of 8 drives. Combine that with some
320GB
> drives and it would supply quite a lot of juice.
>
> You might also want to take a look at the 3Ware controllers. I am
going to
> buy a low-end one and test it out. The higher end ones look quite
nice. The
> driver is supported in kernel 2.4.15 and higher.
>
> http://www.3ware.com/
>
> Now, the question becomes how do you back this up?

I discovered IDE RAID controllers after sending the message, and they
seem to 
be way to go.  Might wait just a bit for serial-ATA to arrive, which
seems 
close.

Found this cool site too:
http://staff.chess.cornell.edu/~schuller/raid.html

- Orion

PS - Is it just me, or is someone replying to digests and re-sending the

entire digest in the reply? 
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