[GLLUG] network attached storage

Edward Glowacki glowack2@msu.edu
01 Mar 2002 13:53:34 -0500


On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 12:45, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:
> 
> > $250 for a basic system with 1.1GHz Duron, 256MB, 10/100 network, and
> > motherboard and case with capacity for 8 IDE drives.
> > 8x$140=$1120 for a full system of 80GB 7200rpm drives OR
> > 8x$280=$2240 for a full system of 160GB 5400rpm drives
> 
> For 8 IDE drives you'll also need an extra IDE controller card.
> (Unless there are motherboards that come with 4 IDE controllers?)

Yeah, my motherboard (Asus A7V) has the normal ATA-66 controller (2
channels = 4 drives), plus an additional onboard ATA-100 controller
(another 2 channels = 4 drives), for a total of 8 drives.  I think there
are also similar boards that have 8 drives and RAID support.  I'm not
sure how well those are supported in Linux/*BSD, but mine works great.
=)



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