Brother, can you spare a couple of SCSI SCA disks?

[Tom Buskey]

On 10/22/07, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/22/07, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> > Needs to look fairly decent and not take up lots of space.
>
>   Pretty much.  Well, really, needs to not take lots of space, power,
> or bandwidth.
>
> >>> SATA is inherently hot plug.
> >
> > 2) power off the drive case
>
>   Just to be a wise-ass: In the above, there's a small wrinkle in your
> "hot plug" scenario... ;-)


Maybe I'm using the term wrong.  What I mean is you can plug the SATA drive
into the system while the system is running.  You could power the disk up
before or after plugging it in.  You will have to umount the disks before
unplugging.  The important thing is the data disks can be swapped in/out
without shutting down the rest of the system.


  You could, of course, use two old PC cases (one drive in each), or,
> more sanely, just a couple of small external disk enclosures, which go
> for less than $25 these days.


Or a 1U server case with a PC power supply, and put all the drives in it.
You'd power on/off the whole unit with all the disks at the same time.  I've
used external SCSI boxes that were similar.

Gee, you have a SCSI controller.  Just get a SCSI cable, drives and external
chassis.  You save $20 on the controller, but the cable is probably 3-5x the
cost of the SATA cables.  You could use an old PC for the case and power.
The disks will cost lots more then SATA.

I realize this is all a bit hackish/kludgey.  But when you have no budget,
you make do.  I've set this up a number of times.

  In any event, if someone wants to donate any of that, or money to
> buy same, I'm sure we'd be happy to take it.  :)


I'm willing to throw $$ at the GNHLUG server farm.  Let me know where to
send a check.  It's cheaper then 10 years of dues :-)
I have external SCSI cases I can make available if you want to go SCSI
instead of SATA.
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