[geeks] Cheap Dell Servers

[Jonathan Katz]

*drool*

How many drives can you fit on a normal SATA bus? I'm not that  
familiar with it; everything I own is still IDE (ATA2) based, save  
the Sun gear I'm trying to sell.

On Feb 6, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> Those cheap Dell servers that people have been picking up  
> lately...  do their motherboards conform to a standard form-factor  
> or are they something proprietary?
>
> The reason why I ask is that I've found a case which has 9 (!)  
> 5.25" open drive bays in the front for less than $110 shipped.  I'd  
> love to be able to throw a few hundred dollars at the problem to  
> get a solution as beefy as an 8-core Xeon.
>
> I'm building an extensible NAS box.  I'll be able to fit up to  
> fifteen 1TB SATA drives in this thing, five at a time.