[geeks] Cheap Dell Servers

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 15:02:54 CST 2008


Jonathan Katz wrote:
> *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.

One drive per channel on SATA.  I'm going to get either two 8-channel 
RAID cards, or one 16-channel one.

Peace...  Sridhar



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