RE: SATA Enclosure

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's in a Compucase S411:

http://www.xcase.co.uk/acatalog/Compucase_S411.html

Mark McC put me onto these - superb case, very well built and sturdy. I
was=
also impressed by the rubber mounting points for the two drive cages at th=
e front - and it also has a fan control/alarm board that you can connect
7-=
8 (IIRC) fans to. The front metal flap has a removeable/washable air
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in too. I replaced all the fans with (lower airflow) but much quieter fans=
- one of my aims was to replace all of my noisy 4 servers with quiet kit.

I was particularly impressed with the RE2 WD drives - good warranty too.

In fact, I actually bought 3 of the cases from Dabs at the stunning price
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f =A369.41 + VAT - quicklinx 3FG4WS. I got the fourth from xcase as dabs
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n out and the lead time was long - looks like they're in now :)

You can also remove rack handles and add supplied feet if needed (as I
have=
now until I move to the new Node0).

The RAID card is an excellent 3Ware 9590SE 8 port card - true hardware
(par=
ity creation and checking on-board rather than O/S) RAID card. Not cheap
th=
ough at something over =A3300 IIRC?


Paul.


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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> aashram
> Sent: 22 September 2006 14:54
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] SATA Enclosure
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> It looks really good
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> What case did you install them in ? What price?
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx on behalf of Paul Gale
> Sent: Fri 22/09/2006 13:00
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] SATA Enclosure
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> External or internal?
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> If Internal, the Chenbro enclosures are really good - support SATAII,
> RAID, Hot Swap etc:
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> http://www.digicor.com.au/products/redirect.asp?code=3DMBRK-SK335&qc=3D23
> (first pic I found) as I bought them from www.xcase.co.uk but their
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> is being re-designed and they're not on there yet.
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> I have two of these stuffed with 8 drives (500Gb WD Raid Edition 2
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> - VERY quiet) :) I did swap the cooling fan for a less noisey one
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> (80mm) - the stock one has HUGE airflow but is like a hurricane!
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> Paul.
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