On 11/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brett Kosinski</b> <<a href="mailto:fancypantalons@gmail.com">fancypantalons@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">><br>> Personally, I'd opt for option two (since you'll likely end up with bigger
<br>> drives), but either way, it's the best way to go for a robust, scalable<br>> storage solution, IMHO.<br>><br><br>How scalable is that really? How many drives are you stuffing in a case?</blockquote></span>
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That depends on the case. :) 6 drives for a good size case is, I think not unreasonable, although heat dissipation (and maybe power?) could become a problem. Of course, if your case hits capacity, you can always buy a couple new, big drives (since they just keep getting bigger) and swap out an old, small RAID with a new, bigger one.
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>:) <br><br>Yes it does...<br><br>Right now I am sitting in my office at work less than 5 feet from a server I built by attaching two full tower cases together and removing right side from one case and left from the other (also pulling out the mobo mount). Anyways I currently have 20 250GB WD SATA drives in it and although I have two independent power supplies APC tells me that the whole system (Opteron 248 processor + 4GB of REG ECC) draws about 350W (under full cpu load and minor disk activity) including everything but the monitor . I can say one thing though with 20 drives the darn thing ways a ton.
<br><br>John<br></div><br></div>