[geeks] A few interesting products...

[Francois Dion]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Nadine Miller <velociraptor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> On Jun 19, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 19, 2008, at 09:07 , Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>>
>>>>> No response from their website for several hours now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds interesting though.
>>>>
>>>> No problem on this end...
>>>
>>> I'm able to get to them now.  For whatever reason I had no route for
>>> several hours.
>>>
>>> Neat stuff.
>>>
>>> One thing about the 5-bay rack... what do you put it in?  I didn't see
>>> where they sold the "outside" of it and the power supply.  I'd need the
>>> whole deal myself.
>>>
>>> I guess this is for stuffing into boxes that have room for it.
>>
>> The kindest way I could describe the 5 bay "tower" would be as a workbench
>> raid array. It take a standard 20 or 24 pin ATX power supply (check the
>> photos).
>>
>> As for a case, you are on your own - I'd like a plexiglass box, if I could
>> get the wiring neat enough...
>
> You could probably retrofit it into an older SCSI/Optical "mini" tower, but
> there's the issue of fitting a PSU in there with it.  I wonder how big of a
> PSU you'd need for 5x SATA II drives?

If he's going to use CFII (Ultra III, IV) cards, any PS will do and be overkill.

> (I hear a zpool calling... :-) Newegg
> had 750GB SATA II's on for $99 the other day iirc.  Disk prices just keep
> falling.)
>
> =Nadine=

I know, it's insane. Stay tuned, I have a feeling nadine is going to
come back soon with a "how I built my own thumper" thread...
:)