RE: Rackmountable Cases

[Mike Griffiths <mike@xxxxxxx>]

Chris
I've just finished building 3 rack mounted PCs to run Broadcast video/
Graphics

Started out with the *cheap* Scan 4 u case
With all the kit in it ran too hot for my liking , there is a =A34k+ Matrox=
card involved + 6 hard disks with all PCI slots taken 
The mobo was a twin P3

The second was the same but twin MP1800
I went in the end for some proper 5u rack mount cases, these allow air
circulation above the PCI cards and have 3 proper fans in the centre of the=
case,
I can find you the reseller but all the info is in work

The Scan 4u I ended up using for the graphics PC running XP2100 and a ABIT<= BR> KR7A the heat and lack of other stuff enables it to  work OK BUT I don= 't
have a lot of drives in that one
Hope this helps
Mike





-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bond [mailto:chris@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 August 2002 19:18
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx; ukha_networking@xxxxxxx Subject: [ukha_d] Rackmountable Cases

Ok im going to bring this topic up again as im about to embark on my
raid5 server project next.

Im looking for rack mountable case probably no more than 4u's max
(preferable around 3u) that can host my mobo and at least 8 hard ide
hard drives.  It also has to be able to cope with at least 3 PCI Netwo= rk
cards, if one or two where 64 bit even better!

The other thing to complicate the matter is if possible I would like the hard drives hot swappable at the front. I know it's possible I've seen
them about.

In true ukha way I don't want to spend lots of money on the case the
cheaper the better, but please post anything you think is relevant.  I=
would say =A3300 is my max on rack mountable case as I need memory and
dual athlon MP mobo to go in it to and the hard drives.

Any ideas?  The reason I'm not going down the SCSI route is I plan to<= BR> raid5/6 the drives with stripping so that shouldn't be an issue.

Kind Regards,
Chris Bond



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