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

[Phillip Harris <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Even if that case has a single connection to the drives then most
motherboa=
rds don't yet seem to support port multipliers on their internal SATA
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ollers (from what I've seen).

Have to say though that I'm using a 4-Port PCI-X e-SATA card in my server
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o go to my external drive enclosure (using port multipliers to hang five
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ives off each SATA  connection) and although I can purposely spank all the
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drives on the one connection simultaneously and get it to hit the
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ns of the single connection it doesn't happen in day to day use (and this
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s my mungo 27Tb media server)...

Phil (27 drive bays with 10 still to fill. :-D )=20
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On 3 Aug 2010, at 14:40, Paul Gale wrote:

> Most SATA backplanes these days seem to be moving towards port
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s - so you use one connection for however many drives. Of course if you
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e a lot of drives that are accessed simultaneously with very large files,
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he theoretical throughput will decrease.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of=
Dean 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
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> So do you end up needing 4 sata ports (but the board linked only
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.e. 1 from each disk......or a single connection to the backplane for all
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>>> 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
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>>> chassis is around
>>> =A3100 and is ideal for a home server/nas with a potentially
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>>> capacity for all your media. There's an internal 2.5"
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>>> for your OS and LinITX have a recommended dual core Atom board
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>>> along with the case to provide great performance and low
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>>> consumption..
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>>> http://bit.ly/9vGI14
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>>> M.
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