[rescue] ID this array, anyone?

[Adam Kropelin]

He's got a whole lot of overpriced stuff for sale and the details are always
scarce and/or innacurate. I just broke the news to him that he's advertising
a RAID array that is actually JBOD. I think I'll hold out for something more
like you describe. I really just need 8 f/w or u/w SCA bays with proper
cooling. I'm currently using a bare backplane with no cabinet. Major
hack-job. It's a good test, though: Every once in a while a drive works its
way loose and the array starts running degraded. Fix the problem and all is
well. It's a good confidence builder if nothing else.

--Adam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Nicewonger" <twmaster at twmaster.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] ID this array, anyone?


> On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, you wrote:
> > Thanks, I agree.
> >
> > --Adam
> >
> To give you idea how clueful the seller is he had claimed the drives to be
5
> GB, they are of course 4.3 GB */sigh*/
>
> The thing being HVD to the world and only fas/wide for sure do not make
worth
> much. I have seen some fairly nice Compaq rack mount 8 slot f/w and u/w
shelves
> very cheap on ebay. Those are truely hot swap and most can be split down
the
> backplabe for use with dual channels.
>
> Mike N