1src Forums - Reliable, yet affordable RAID setup?

03-08-2005, 01:41 PM	#16
JackAxe Barbarian Artist Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Barbarianville Posts: 3,079	ArRrRrr, they be available now. I was actually searching for PCI-X FW, but found SATA instead. I'm personally not a fan of 4 cables coming out of the back. I'm figuring that it would be the same for FW if I wanted each drive to have max available bandwidth, or SCSI and its fat cables that never seemed long enough. Here be a card: http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo-x_sata44.html Ooooh, a 8X drive set up sustains over 500 megs on a read. <]=) __________________ I be a hearty pirate that plunders many waffles. The Dread Pirate Monkey Gizmo has scurvy! :) Nintendo DS and Wii, me gaming machines of choice.

03-08-2005, 01:45 PM	#17
SamuraiCatJB Need coffee. Need coffee. Platinum Contributor Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Alamogordo, NM USA Posts: 2,045	Performance to leave you SATAsfied? ouch.... and I thought I was punny. __________________ And now, Grandfather, I ask you to bless the White Man. He needs your Wisdom, your guidance. You see, for so long, he has tried to destroy my people, and only feels comfortable when given power. Bless them, show them the peace we understand, teach them humility. For I fear they will someday destroy themselves and their children, As they have done so Mother Earth. I plead, I cry. After all, They are my Brothers.... ~ Prayer ~

03-08-2005, 02:52 PM	#18
JackAxe Barbarian Artist Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Barbarianville Posts: 3,079	What the freak, are you making a pun. How would I do an external 8 drive setup? Would I need to use the 4 internal slots and pull them through another PCI-X bay, or add another card? Or is there a way to do it with only 4 cables? <]=) __________________ I be a hearty pirate that plunders many waffles. The Dread Pirate Monkey Gizmo has scurvy! :) Nintendo DS and Wii, me gaming machines of choice.

03-08-2005, 05:09 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JackAxe

What the freak, are you making a pun.

How would I do an external 8 drive setup? Would I need to use the 4 internal slots and pull them through another PCI-X bay, or add another card? Or is there a way to do it with only 4 cables?

<]=)

not me, them! they said it.

no way to do it with 4 cables that I know of, no daisy chains. but you could pull the cables through, or instead of buying the 8 port card, buy two 4 port external cards. although that limits you to groups of 4 you could do raid 1+0 with hardware striping to 4 disks and software mirroring within OS.

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03-08-2005, 06:14 PM	#20
JackAxe Barbarian Artist Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Barbarianville Posts: 3,079	I relize now, if I pull the card cables through, or get 2 cards, then I wouldn't be able to add a ARTVPC. The 6800 stole one of me PCI-X slots I'll just go with 4 or 2 for now, since 8 drives will put me in the 2k range and I want the last slot free. Worse case scenario, I would need to sell my 6800 and goto ATI, or file away an opening. <]=) __________________ I be a hearty pirate that plunders many waffles. The Dread Pirate Monkey Gizmo has scurvy! :) Nintendo DS and Wii, me gaming machines of choice.

03-08-2005, 06:22 PM	#21
JackAxe Barbarian Artist Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Barbarianville Posts: 3,079	I can get a PCI-X 4 port RAID FW 800 card: http://www.indigita.com/products/ho...4pci.html#Order This is probably a more expensive route though. My RAID 133 that had issues in RAID mode was a Sonnets, so I'm a little bit paranoid about getting the above SATA card I posted a link for. <]=) __________________ I be a hearty pirate that plunders many waffles. The Dread Pirate Monkey Gizmo has scurvy! :) Nintendo DS and Wii, me gaming machines of choice.

03-09-2005, 04:27 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyker

RAID stands for redundant array of inexpensive disks, and SCSI is anything but expensive!
IDE is deffo the way to go for RAID...

I always thought RAID was Redundant array of insignificant disks.... Its the only way to get my 2.5 terabyte fix.... aaaahhhhh

03-09-2005, 05:01 PM	#23
JackAxe Barbarian Artist Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Barbarianville Posts: 3,079	I have 2.6 Terabytes. Ok, I don't. <]=) __________________ I be a hearty pirate that plunders many waffles. The Dread Pirate Monkey Gizmo has scurvy! :) Nintendo DS and Wii, me gaming machines of choice.

03-09-2005, 05:46 PM	#24
SamuraiCatJB Need coffee. Need coffee. Platinum Contributor Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Alamogordo, NM USA Posts: 2,045	That's okay... I really only have 2.1 I was exaggerating a bit.... 15x300gig with 1 hot swap spare, so 14 x 300 at RAID 1+0 __________________ And now, Grandfather, I ask you to bless the White Man. He needs your Wisdom, your guidance. You see, for so long, he has tried to destroy my people, and only feels comfortable when given power. Bless them, show them the peace we understand, teach them humility. For I fear they will someday destroy themselves and their children, As they have done so Mother Earth. I plead, I cry. After all, They are my Brothers.... ~ Prayer ~

03-09-2005, 06:08 PM	#25
zackepceo nothing to hide Join Date: May 2003 Location: skyline of numbers Posts: 1,290	Pppsh, only 300 gigs? Those new 500 gig drives are the only thing to have nowadays. __________________ "No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism."

03-09-2005, 06:32 PM	#26
JackAxe Barbarian Artist Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Barbarianville Posts: 3,079	I was thinking about swaping my two internal 250 gigs for 2 500 gigs. Then again, naaaaa. I'm just going to get 4 external 250s, unless 500s aren't that much more. <]=) __________________ I be a hearty pirate that plunders many waffles. The Dread Pirate Monkey Gizmo has scurvy! :) Nintendo DS and Wii, me gaming machines of choice.

03-09-2005, 07:38 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zackepceo

Pppsh, only 300 gigs? Those new 500 gig drives are the only thing to have nowadays.

but I would have to buy them, and the project leader is pinching pennies... he won't even buy me that dual 6800u.

sheeesh.

but he might buy me a PPU to use along side of the GPU and CPU, because he wants to see a PPU.

03-09-2005, 08:06 PM	#28
zackepceo nothing to hide Join Date: May 2003 Location: skyline of numbers Posts: 1,290	You mean the dual-GPU 6800 that uses 4 molex connectors? __________________ "No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism."

03-09-2005, 08:15 PM	#29
SamuraiCatJB Need coffee. Need coffee. Platinum Contributor Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Alamogordo, NM USA Posts: 2,045	yup! __________________ And now, Grandfather, I ask you to bless the White Man. He needs your Wisdom, your guidance. You see, for so long, he has tried to destroy my people, and only feels comfortable when given power. Bless them, show them the peace we understand, teach them humility. For I fear they will someday destroy themselves and their children, As they have done so Mother Earth. I plead, I cry. After all, They are my Brothers.... ~ Prayer ~

03-10-2005, 01:21 AM	#30
JackAxe Barbarian Artist Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Barbarianville Posts: 3,079	A PPU would do wonders for dynamics in Maya. <]=) __________________ I be a hearty pirate that plunders many waffles. The Dread Pirate Monkey Gizmo has scurvy! :) Nintendo DS and Wii, me gaming machines of choice.