Cluster project revisited]]

Brad Crotchett brad at ispn.net
Thu Oct 31 12:34:28 CST 2002


OK, everything I have personally is IDE, but we have a lot of old SCSI 
cables at work that my boss might throw in free.  I will need some directions 
on what I am looking for though, I am not a SCSI expert.

> 
> Well, we'll still need SCSI cables.  I've got some, but not enough for a
> 21 drive RAID, and I don't think I have any with 8 connections per
> cable.  On the other hand, I think I have enough of the RAID cards that
> a couple could be put in a system, which would sort-of make sense...the
> drives can sustain apx 5 MB/s each, so 3-4 would saturate a 20MB/s
> SCSI-wide link.  Might make sense to break the RAID across two
> controllers...
> 
> Charles Steinkuehler
> charles at steinkuehler.net
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