Re: 1TB Raid?

["paul_watkin" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi chris,

I have recently built a 500gig Raid 5 array using the Promise=20
Supertrack (6Port IDE) card and 250Gig Maxtor Drives (3 off).

I went down the IDE route as Maxtor only offer 3 year warranties on=20
some of the IDE drives and they were only a couple of quid more=20
expensie than 1 year warranty non server drives through PC World.

So far working perfectly I have bunged the drives in Icy Docks to=20
keep them cool and although it's in 19" rack case with several
other=20
fans the noise isn't bad. Quiet CPU fan and Quiet PSU help a bit.

Have the headroom to go to 1.25TB should I ever need it

Cheers

Paul=20
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Chris Bond" <chris@l...> wrote:
> Well sorta on topic for a change cos its for my HA stuff =3D)
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> Just wondering the cheapest solutions people have found to=20
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> a 1TB Raid.
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> Looks like 4 x 250GB SATA drives are about going to be about
=A3480.=20=20
> Im not sure about what case to host these in or what raid card to=20
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> for, i'd want RAID5 minimum on it incase on of the drives go tits=20
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> and thats all my mp3's gone.  It also needs to be queit as it'll be=20
> in my office.
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> Phil found a nice firewire case that holds 8 ide drives, im a bit=20
> nervous in using software raid because of the data on there.  SATA=20
> drives are only about =A32 more these days but offer better speed,=20
> tider cables etc seems a more sensible choice than IDE.
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> It would be nice if i had the option to upgrade by adding a few=20
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> 250GB drives at a later stage too, with RAID5 im taking about 33%=20
> loss leaving about 670GB of space.  Then I can take it upto a true=20
> RAID5 1TB later on.
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> The lacie 1TB bigger disk looks amazing value for money considering=20
> its size and connections on it (works out at about =A3660), but
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> again its lacking RAID5.
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> Any ideas or suggestions, without going OTT price wise - ideally=20
i'd=20
> like to come in no more than =A3600-700 for the lot which seems
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> considering all of the above.