RE: Re: 1TB Raid?

["Dean Smith" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul

Does the Promise Hardware/Drivers allow you to add an extra disk and
incorporate the raid without losing the current Data ?

i.e move from 3 Disk array (500Gb) to 4 disk array (750Gb) and maintain all
data

Dean
-----Original Message-----
From: paul_watkin [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 June 2004 14:52
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: 1TB Raid?


Hi chris,

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

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

So far working perfectly I have bunged the drives in Icy Docks to
keep them cool and although it's in 19" rack case with several other
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
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Chris Bond" <chris@l...> wrote:
> Well sorta on topic for a change cos its for my HA stuff =3D)
>
> Just wondering the cheapest solutions people have found to
implement
> a 1TB Raid.
>
> Looks like 4 x 250GB SATA drives are about going to be about =A3480.
> Im not sure about what case to host these in or what raid card to
go
> for, i'd want RAID5 minimum on it incase on of the drives go tits
up
> and thats all my mp3's gone.  It also needs to be queit as it'll be
> in my office.
>
> Phil found a nice firewire case that holds 8 ide drives, im a bit
> nervous in using software raid because of the data on there.  SATA
> drives are only about =A32 more these days but offer better speed,
> tider cables etc seems a more sensible choice than IDE.
>
> It would be nice if i had the option to upgrade by adding a few
extra
> 250GB drives at a later stage too, with RAID5 im taking about 33%
> loss leaving about 670GB of space.  Then I can take it upto a true
> RAID5 1TB later on.
>
> The lacie 1TB bigger disk looks amazing value for money considering
> its size and connections on it (works out at about =A3660), but once
> again its lacking RAID5.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions, without going OTT price wise - ideally
i'd
> like to come in no more than =A3600-700 for the lot which seems hard
> considering all of the above.