Racks and servers and HD's, oh my.

Jared Watkins jared at watkins.net
Mon Jun 26 00:54:01 EDT 2006


For small raid check these out...  I've seen others.. but these were the 
first two I found tonight.

http://www.unityelectronics.com/product-product_id/2144

http://www.enhance-tech.com/products/multidrive/q14.html

Jared



Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2006, at 09:26, Thomas Charron wrote:
>
>> Additionally, we need Raid over at
>> least 2 drives, and room for a spare PCI slot.
>
> That's tough if you're going to be using 3.5" drives.  As Bill 
> mentioned, you need power in the back so you've got less than 
> 17.5"x12" of space to work with which is the footprint of a big 
> laptop.  Can you get away with laptop drives?   How about solid state 
> instead of hard drives?
>
> That's what I've been doing for firewall work - importing OEM boxes 
> from Taiwan and using the CF slot for storage.
>
> I've been getting them with a CF slot, a Pentium M 1.7, a quarter GIG 
> of ram (max 1.2), 2x100 & 2x1000 LAN, 1 PCI, 1 mini-PCI, 1 serial and 
> 2 USB.  They have headers for VGA, PS/2 and parallel for development 
> work but no permanent ports (dremel if you need it).  Also an LCD 
> panel and watchdog timer that I haven't had a chance to hack into 
> m0n0wall yet.  Oh, they measure 17.6"x8.27"x1.7".
>
> If you need a few I can add on to an order I'm going to be putting in 
> in the next couple weeks.  Or I can dig up something better than my 
> ratty data sheet for you.  But there's only 1 3.5" bay (which I 
> usually leave empty).  I think there's room in that bay for two laptop 
> drives if you can accept imperfect mounting and maybe snipping out the 
> 3.5" mounting rails to pick up an extra half inch all around.
>
> -Bill
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