RE: Re: Media Servers - Big Hard Drives

["David Millard" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For Large disk systems it=92s about time you guys took a look at this baby
HYPERLINK
"http://www.procase.co.nz/IPC/3U_4U/C4D.htm"http://www.procase.co.nz/IPC
/3U_4U/C4D.htm

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I will certainly be making it the case of choice for my Media server.
Add one of the SATA raid controllers and motherboard and you rocking

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David

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-----Original Message-----
From: James Hoye [mailto:yahoo@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Wednesday, 21 July 2004 8:10 p.m.
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Media Servers - Big Hard Drives

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> I'm just waiting for some "spare funds" (if such things
exist) to
> order up a
> couple of these for myself (I need to re-house 16 x 160Gb drives
> in a server
> reshuffle which I *MUST* get done soon) . I have been wondering
> about using
> multiple (two or four) separate firewire interfaces in the PC to
> get better
> throughput from these enclosures and also to tidy up cabling a
> bit, however
> I think the multiple port PCI cards are effectively one firewire
interface
> and an integrated firewire hub so I need to find a firewire card that
has
> multiple firewire interfaces rather than a single hubbed interface.
The
> short firewire cables that would be used ideally to loop between
> interfaces
> on the enclosure seem to be exhorbitantly expensive - about twice
> the price
> of a 2m cable! (Little demand for them I suppose.)

You could also look at
HYPERLINK
"http://www.span.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=3D29_1308&products_id=
=3D
1073"http://www.span.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=3D29_1308&products
_id=3D1073
if you want to "roll your own".

We've (Mark and me) been trying to work out how to build a rackmount
enclosure with "quite a few" 300GB drives in connected to a
server via
firewire (without paying the earth).  So far using these firewire/IDE
bridges to serve a pair of drives, and with one of these
HYPERLINK
"http://www.imashape.com/4858.htm"http://www.imashape.com/4858.htm
we
reckon on being able to get 2.4TB into
4U.  Can't seem to find a UK supplier of the enclosure though :(

James



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