Linux ATA RAID
Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net
Wed Mar 5 03:37:09 CST 2003
Lucas Peet wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2003 5:41 pm, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>> Yeah, I've always liked Adaptec controllers. The biggest problem with
>> the 2400a is the 4 drive limit. That get's me about the right amount of
>> storage today using 4 180Gig drives in RAID5, but I'd like to be able to
>> expand when (not if :) it's needed.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you have 2 drives per channel? At 4
> channels x2 drives that should give you up to 8 drives?
You can normally have 2 drives per channel, but the Adaptec 2400A
controller only supports one HDD per channel, for a total of 4 drives.
I'm still hoping to hear from someone with experience with something
that could support 6-8 drives.
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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net
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