Re: Media Servers

[Bruno Prior <bruno@xxxxxxx>]

Sorry for the much-delayed response. Keeping up with this list is a 
full-time job.

I've been playing with IDE RAID and caddies for years. I'm not that 
knowledgeable about the hardware, but the advice I have been given by 
those who seem to know better than me, is that hot swapping of IDE is a
dangerous game. It may be that specialised kit like Graham's can handle
it, but you should not expect bog-standard IDE disk caddies to do so. 
You are very likely to damage your system. And whatever the claimed 
capabilities of a caddy, I understand that it will not handle 
hot-swapping where you have more than one disk per IDE channel.

I think I read that the ability to handle hot-swapping is one of the 
features introduced in Serial ATA, so we may have more potential for 
cheap hot-swapping in the future.

Cheers,

Bruno Prior


Lee wrote:
> Now that's a nice piece of kit. As usual, shame about the
dollar/pound
> conversion!
> Is there anything special about the caddies? If not, maybe we could
get away
> with cheaper caddies
> and go for a non-pro SX6000. And then import them from the US for
under 200
> quid.
> Which leaves the small matter of a box to put it all in...
> 
> Terrabyte heaven... :)
> 
> 
>>I use the promise SuperTrak SX6000 Pro. I supports up to 6 disks
on
>>separate channels and comes with 3 hot swap caddies. At the moment
I am
>>using it on my server and only have 3 smallish disks on it, but I
intend
>>to put it in a media server as soon as large disks come down in
price a
>>bit.

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