[rescue] Re: [geeks] SGI Origin 200 firewire upgrade - A little OT

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www.computergiants.com, depending on how much space you want the most
insane is as I said, 6 180gig seagates, raid-5 them, you've got enough
storage to last forever... run around 12k.
	Nick

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Simeon Johnston wrote:

> > Message: 13
> > Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 15:14:30 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
> > To: sun-rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> > Subject: [rescue] Re: [geeks] SGI Origin 200 firewire upgrade - A little OT
> > Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >
> > Doesn't the O200 have multiple external SCSI buses?  If so, adding more
> > storage is a simple matter of adding a new storage array and hooking it up
> > to the next free bus.
> >
> > What do you use the machine for anyway?
> 
> The people who sold it to us said something about not using more than 4 drives per external bus.  Past that
> the signal starts to degrade and the speed is affected.
> I think they were full of sht but I'm not sure how good the signal has to be to get the kind of speed we are
> getting.
> 
> We have 4 on each bus and 2 internal drives as storage.  One internal dedicated to OS - IRIX 6.5.
> We use this as our main file/print server.  Lots of big files and lots of storage space.  6 9GB drives and 4
> 18GB drives.  Were running out of room though.  I would like to either upgrade/replace the current drives with
> newer bigger and more efficient drives.
> OR install a firewire upgrade and get a bunch of firewire hotswapable drives.  There getting cheaper and can
> be daisy chained together.  Much more expansion capability than the scsi busses.
> 
> It hold's almost everyones data.  All our clients data.  Lot's and lot's of data.
> Need more room.
> So, I need to either get replacement drives that are compatible with the SGI O200 (are these special or
> standard scsi?  7200rpm at least I suppose but maybe 10000rpm?) or get a firewire upgrade card.
> 
> sim
> 
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