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

[Jon Wilkins <jonpdwilkins@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nice case.  Not sure how new this is as I'm sure I was looking at
something
similar a while back.

I only wish they'd start doing these cases with 2.5" drive slots (I
mean fo=
r
the NAS storage part, not the 1x OS drive).  I mainly need GB of storage,
not so interested in it being super-dooper-fast, so prefer to use 2.5"
as
these are often lower power consumption as well.

jon


On 3 August 2010 15:18, Phillip Harris <phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> Even if that case has a single connection to the drives then most
> motherboards don't yet seem to support port multipliers on their
internal
> SATA controllers (from what I've seen).
>
> Have to say though that I'm using a 4-Port PCI-X e-SATA card in my
server
> to go to my external drive enclosure (using port multipliers to hang
five
> drives off each SATA connection) and although I can purposely spank
all t=
he
> drives on the one connection simultaneously and get it to hit the
> limitations of the single connection it doesn't happen in day to day
use
> (and this is my mungo 27Tb media server)...
>
> Phil (27 drive bays with 10 still to fill. :-D )
>
> On 3 Aug 2010, at 14:40, Paul Gale wrote:
>
> > Most SATA backplanes these days seem to be moving towards port
> multipliers - so you use one connection for however many drives. Of
cours=
e
> if you have a lot of drives that are accessed simultaneously with very
la=
rge
> files, the theoretical throughput will decrease.
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of Dean
Smit=
h
> > Sent: 03 August 2010 14:37
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] New 4 Bay Mini-ITX Hot Swap Case Brings
Home Serv=
er
> Heaven
> >
> > 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
al=
l 4
> ?
> >>
> >>> The guys over at LinITX.com have introduced a new
Mini-ITX
> >>> NAS/Server Case with 4 Hot Swap 3.5" SATA drive
bays. The bare
> >>> chassis is around
> >>> =A3100 and is ideal for a home server/nas with a
potentially huge
> >>> capacity for all your media. There's an internal
2.5" drive bay too
> >>> for your OS and LinITX have a recommended dual core Atom
board to go
> >>> along with the case to provide great performance and low
power
> >>> consumption..
> >>>
> >>> http://bit.ly/9vGI14
> >>>
> >>> M.
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
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