RE: New 4 Bay Mini-ITX Hot Swap Case Brings Home Server Heaven

[Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most SATA backplanes these days seem to be moving towards port
multipliers =
- so you use one connection for however many drives. Of course if you have
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a lot of drives that are accessed simultaneously with very large files,
the=
theoretical throughput will decrease.

Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of D=
ean Smith
Sent: 03 August 2010 14:37
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] New 4 Bay Mini-ITX Hot Swap Case Brings Home Server
H=
eaven

So do you end up needing 4 sata ports (but the board linked only has2?)
i.e=
. 1 from each disk......or a single connection to the backplane for all 4 ?
>
> > The guys over at LinITX.com have introduced a new Mini-ITX=20
> > NAS/Server Case with 4 Hot Swap 3.5" SATA drive bays. The
bare=20
> > chassis is around
> > =A3100 and is ideal for a home server/nas with a potentially
huge=20
> > capacity for all your media. There's an internal 2.5" drive
bay too=20
> > for your OS and LinITX have a recommended dual core Atom board to
go=20
> > along with the case to provide great performance and low power=20
> > consumption..
> >
> > http://bit.ly/9vGI14
> >
> > M.
> >
>



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