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Got my hardware ATA raid 5 controller today!
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:58 pm
by STRESSTEST
not pictured is the 256meg stick of PC133 going in it, or the 4 200 gig drives still in route.
This is for the FTP box. Those that have been on it know there is a ton of stuff there. Well, I've run out of room.
So, new config:
1x41 gig boot/OS drive
1x200 gig WD (that $22.26 shipped one) FTP storage
4x200 gig Maxtor 9's in raid 5 (600gig usable) FTP storage..
Almost a TB usable
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:03 pm
by BfDiDDy
oooooooo a penny!
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:04 pm
by Krom
Nice!
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:26 pm
by Pun
whoa.
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:21 pm
by AceCombat
i see markings for a Battery on the PCB which indicates a option for a onboard BIOS
and im wondering what would go were stress put the penny?
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:13 pm
by Avder
My next comp I build will have at least 1TB in RAID-5 SATA Storage
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:25 pm
by Wolf on Air
You LOSE. I've had mine for, oh, two years now
Back then 40 GB was big, so I have a 4x40 array in RAID5 = 120 GB usable. Well, it's
fast for certain things.
Oh, and AC... it's
got a BIOS, and it doesn't need a backup battery. I've no idea why one's drawn on the PCB, but it stores all state information on a reserved sector of the HDDs.
Downside to this card is it's frelling
HUGE. The space between the card and the 5-disk drive rack in my Lian-Li PC60 is like 4 mm.
Oh, and mine is the real thing, not "LITE" whatever that means...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:26 pm
by Vertigo
Been using that one for quite some time too..... 1.5 years, i think...
Pretty good card, albeit a bit slow at times.
Tossed it out recently because i lost a RAID5 array due to that card. For some reason two of the 120GB disks connected to it would start clicking regularly, wich killed the RAID5 array...
Connecting the disks to a regular IDE controller would result in flawless operation tho
Oh well, have fun with it
(mine isn't a LITE either
)
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 5:45 am
by BUBBALOU
Vertigo wrote:Tossed it out recently...
To the internet Garbage can called EBAY?
or into the regular garbage?
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:52 am
by Vertigo
Nowhere atm... still lying around here.
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:11 pm
by MD-2389
Nice!
I'm suprised you didn't find a way to make the PCB bl00.
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:12 pm
by AceCombat
dont give him any ideas MD
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:29 pm
by Iceman
!!! $$$ ???
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:40 pm
by STRESSTEST
drives got here today
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:23 pm
by Wolf on Air
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:37 pm
by Vertigo
The SX4000 is somewhere behind the flat-cable mess at the bottom.
In that case at that time :
4X 120GB RAID5
2x 200GB RAID0
2x 80GB RAID0
2x 35GB 15K rpm SCSI RAID0
Pic's a bit small, i know.
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:44 pm
by JMEaT
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 3:28 am
by Tricord
0WNED!
How many disks can that card handle? Four or eight?
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 11:51 am
by Sage
Sooo..... What's a Raid?
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 3:59 pm
by JMEaT
BTW, looks sweet Stress.
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 5:37 pm
by AceCombat
those HDD's can be RPM Adjusted by the jumpers? i notice on the jumper block diagram it has "7200RPM" and a specific jumper point drawn to that indication
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:26 pm
by Krom
Also likely helps heat, 4500 RPM requires less cooling by a lot.
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:55 pm
by AceCombat
ahhhh, some things ive never seen before.
