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

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

> 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.

You mean the drive won't work until it is moved to another channel or
the
master is repelaced, rather than the drive become permanenetly
un-usable,
right?

> 2) Ensure you get a big enough PSU, for 8 drives your looking at 460W
plus

Can you gimme URL for sources?  Are these big?

> 3) IDE is NOT hotswapable.

No biggy for my application.

> 4) Ensure there is adequate case cooling.

Do I need fans on the case then?

Is 3U the right size??

> 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.

I don't want or need raid.

Thanks

M.

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