Sure, I will build a list of hardware when I get home tonight, and while I'm at it I'll take a few more pictures so you can see the front, and a better picture of the back.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Big Wave Dave <<a href="mailto:bigwavedave@gmail.com">bigwavedave@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Matt Nelson <<a href="mailto:matt@frozenatom.com">matt@frozenatom.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I did come across those but when costing out my build, but I was trying to<br>
> create a cheap stable enclosure setup so I could spend the majority of my $$<br>
> on the drives themselves. I have really been happy with my setup. The<br>
> system was up for over 130 Days until I upgraded to .21, and I even had a<br>
> drive fail that I was able to hot swap the replacement and rebuild the array<br>
> without any downtime!<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:10 AM, James Klaas <<a href="mailto:jklaas@appalachian.dyndns.org">jklaas@appalachian.dyndns.org</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Matt Nelson <<a href="mailto:matt@frozenatom.com">matt@frozenatom.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > On one of my mythtv backend servers I host my fileserver that stores all<br>
>> > of<br>
>> > my media on two raid5 sets totaling 12 drives that are all attached via<br>
>> > sata. These are all attached externally, and that is where my question<br>
>> > lies, if I connect these drives incorrectly will my raid sets die, or<br>
>> > does<br>
>> > it not matter where they are connected since there is some metadata that<br>
>> > tells the linux software raid that it belongs to a certain raid set?<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > Also since I love seeing how people are setting up their mythboxes,<br>
>> > attached<br>
>> > is a picture of the back of the myth backend server mentioned above.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > <a href="http://img115.imageshack.us/my.php?image=05310720471ot5.jpg" target="_blank">http://img115.imageshack.us/my.php?image=05310720471ot5.jpg</a><br>
>><br>
>> Did you consider using a SATA port multiplier<br>
>> (<a href="http://www.satadrives.com/saii1to5popo.html" target="_blank">http://www.satadrives.com/saii1to5popo.html</a>)? I think these are<br>
>> pretty well supported by recent kernels, although I'm not sure how<br>
>> well they're supported by non-SiliconImage chipsets. Does anyone have<br>
>> an opinion on those?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Can you post some links to the hardware you ended up using?<br>
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