http://peelman.us/2008/10/29/file-server-upgrades/ if frustration had mass, a blackhole would follow me everywhere... Wed, 11 May 2011 22:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://peelman.us/2008/10/29/file-server-upgrades/comment-page-1/#comment-46 peelman Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:12:58 +0000 http://www.peelman.us/wordpress/?p=53#comment-46 I waiting to find a decent, reasonably priced, 4-8 port SATA controller. I'm looking very hard at the Rosewill RSV-S8 (http://www.rosewill.com/products/1189/productDetail.htm) or the S5 (5-drive version) to add some mass expandability and run a massive ZRAID over eSATA when the demand is there. Right now my growth is small enough and the price of storage cheap enough I can keep swapping out my smallest disks with bigger ones and get a nice rotation going where i'm not leaning on aging drives for storing data like I was (all 4 PATA drives i pulled were 3-4 years old minimum, the 60GB system drive was almost 6, and was on just about 24/7/365 that whole time. A rather large testament to Western Digital's Caviar drives. I waiting to find a decent, reasonably priced, 4-8 port SATA controller. I’m looking very hard at the Rosewill RSV-S8 (http://www.rosewill.com/products/1189/productDetail.htm) or the S5 (5-drive version) to add some mass expandability and run a massive ZRAID over eSATA when the demand is there. Right now my growth is small enough and the price of storage cheap enough I can keep swapping out my smallest disks with bigger ones and get a nice rotation going where i’m not leaning on aging drives for storing data like I was (all 4 PATA drives i pulled were 3-4 years old minimum, the 60GB system drive was almost 6, and was on just about 24/7/365 that whole time. A rather large testament to Western Digital’s Caviar drives.

]]> http://peelman.us/2008/10/29/file-server-upgrades/comment-page-1/#comment-3032 peelman Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:12:00 +0000 http://www.peelman.us/wordpress/?p=53#comment-3032 I waiting to find a decent, reasonably priced, 4-8 port SATA controller. I'm looking very hard at the Rosewill RSV-S8 (http://www.rosewill.com/products/1189/productDetail.htm) or the S5 (5-drive version) to add some mass expandability and run a massive ZRAID over eSATA when the demand is there. Right now my growth is small enough and the price of storage cheap enough I can keep swapping out my smallest disks with bigger ones and get a nice rotation going where i'm not leaning on aging drives for storing data like I was (all 4 PATA drives i pulled were 3-4 years old minimum, the 60GB system drive was almost 6, and was on just about 24/7/365 that whole time. A rather large testament to Western Digital's Caviar drives. I waiting to find a decent, reasonably priced, 4-8 port SATA controller. I’m looking very hard at the Rosewill RSV-S8 (http://www.rosewill.com/products/1189/productDetail.htm) or the S5 (5-drive version) to add some mass expandability and run a massive ZRAID over eSATA when the demand is there. Right now my growth is small enough and the price of storage cheap enough I can keep swapping out my smallest disks with bigger ones and get a nice rotation going where i’m not leaning on aging drives for storing data like I was (all 4 PATA drives i pulled were 3-4 years old minimum, the 60GB system drive was almost 6, and was on just about 24/7/365 that whole time. A rather large testament to Western Digital’s Caviar drives.

]]> http://peelman.us/2008/10/29/file-server-upgrades/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Matthew Rogers Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:37:52 +0000 http://www.peelman.us/wordpress/?p=53#comment-44 Nice writeup. That's amazing how low you got the power consumption on Altair. If you ever get a ZFS RAID-Z set up, make sure you blog about that too :) Nice writeup. That’s amazing how low you got the power consumption on Altair. If you ever get a ZFS RAID-Z set up, make sure you blog about that too

]]> http://peelman.us/2008/10/29/file-server-upgrades/comment-page-1/#comment-3031 Matthew Rogers Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:37:00 +0000 http://www.peelman.us/wordpress/?p=53#comment-3031 Nice writeup. That's amazing how low you got the power consumption on Altair. If you ever get a ZFS RAID-Z set up, make sure you blog about that too :) Nice writeup. That’s amazing how low you got the power consumption on Altair. If you ever get a ZFS RAID-Z set up, make sure you blog about that too

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