Re: [OT] (A little) : Firewire cables...

["Mal Lansell" <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > Even with 2 more disks than my old server, my UPS is now
reporting 36
> > minutes of backup instead of 20, so my goal of reducing power
> > consumption has been achieved, and because the drives are all
connected
> > directly to sata ports, they all spin down too.
>
> *cough* They can spin down on Firewire too if they're on a Mac... :-
D

:-)


>
> One thing that I do want to do (and this is simply down to
experience over
> the last four or five years with the current solution) is to make
sure that
> any "box" that is added to the server - including the server
itself - has
> either SATA caddies (i.e. http://tinyurl.com/37vhf5 ) or SATA
backplanes
> (i.e. http://tinyurl.com/3a35g9 ) fitted
from the outset *BEFORE*
it ever
> gets turned on so that it is easy to add or remove drives. (This
means all
> drives have to be accessible from the front of the machine too so no
> internal 3.5" drive bays being used.)
>

I'm not to worried about this one - I had originally looked at the
cases with loads of hot-swappable bays in front, but they were quite
expensive.  I don't have nearly as many drives as you, and nor do I
expect to (although I suspect your drive count is about to tumble
too).

Come to think of it, I think I replace the PC more often than the
drives!

Mal