Hi John, Yes, I looked into this and I was looking for a solution with a large number of drives, but at a good cost point. So you are saying a full fledged PC with an 8-port sata mobo is a better solution. --Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "John R Pierce" <pierce at hogranch.com> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 9:36:59 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] eSATA drive enclosure of a full PC? Slack-Moehrle wrote: > HI All, > > I have a dilemma and I would appreciate advice > > 1. 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 > > 2. 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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos