21 Feb
2010
21 Feb
'10
6:36 a.m.
Slack-Moehrle wrote:
HI All,
I have a dilemma and I would appreciate advice
- Get a good size case, mobo, processor, etc and put 8 hard drives it in and RAID them. (yes an 8 port SATA mobo). Running CentOS.
or
- Get an eSATA enclosure that has room for 8 or 10 drives and just connect it to box?
esata enclosure will be on a single SATA port, which will be a bottleneck for 4 or more drives. maybe even for 3 drives. 8 or more drives should be on a 4 channel SAS port at least.
how about getting something like a QNAP and putting your storage on the network?
for instance, http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=134