Re: RAID recommendations?

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perfect! exactly what i was after!! and the RR2200 is only =A3188 on scan!!

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=3D"0845

Think I'm settled on the same case as Mark used in the Jukebox server
guide, just got to start looking into motherboards and caddies now!!!

Paul - any reasoning on your choice of drive size? or is it just a
sensible compromise between size without having to pay price premiums??

I am correct in assuming that all drives need to be the same size??
Thanks
Noel


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gordon" <paul@p...> wrote:
> Ah yes, - good spot...
>=20
> I definitely *do* want the online expansion ability, - since I know
I'm
> not going to be able to afford that many 400GB drives all in one go,
so
> I definitely plan to start of with probably 4x400's in RAID 5 (1.2TB
> volume), and then add more 400GB drives over time as/when required.
>=20
> Since I reckon I'm going to be OK until about Christmas, I may put off
> buying until then, since I'll have more spare cash by then, plus I
> expect the prices will have dropped a little more by then too...
>=20
> I'm also tempted to hold out for a PCIe version - since I don't reckon
> there's much future in the PCI-X bus now that PCIe is here...
>=20
> Paul G.

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