Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:29:34 -0800 (PST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> To: Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Lots of disks. Message-ID: <20031210022445.B10698@skutsje.san.webweaving.org> In-Reply-To: <20031208140528.GA1001@lewiz.org> References: <20031208140528.GA1001@lewiz.org>
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote: > Is it even possible to have >4 IDE disks? I know the performance > would be terrible but I have considered this and realised it is > irrelevant since the box only has a 10Mbit connection (it's for storing > large data files (videos, etc.)). Yes - you many also want to look at 3ware their IDE cards (which can handle 4 8 or 16 disks). That is an easy/cheap way to add some IDE disks to your machine. See http://www.ironsystems.com/ and ASA computers for some inspiration and configs. We've used the latter for 'cheap' but low quality storage in the 0.5-2Tb for things like large datafiles. For certain things it can be very effective and under the 5k sort of value. Dw
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