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Norco External Storage
I am planning on buying a Norco 12 bay(drive) external storage system for use with FCP. I plan on using it with mirrored raid. Has anyone used or bought this system, if so please tell me what you think.
Thanks
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Steve,
There is a nice review on the AMUG website at https://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/norco/1220/
The biggest downside they mentioned was, “this 12-bay enclosure creates more fan noise than any other hard drive enclosure that AMUG has tested.”
[Steve Powell] “I plan on using it with mirrored raid.”
As you will see in the article, the unit is a hybrid, with 10-bays connected to the two port multiplier ports, and two additional drive bays that would need to be connected to separate dual port SATA controller. If you mirror ten drives you will cut your space by 50% and your speed will also drop significantly. Port multipliers are already slower than direct connect SATA controllers, so your throughput would probably only be in the 235mbps range at Raid-1, as compared to about 400mbps is you stripped all ten drives at Raid-0. AMUG recommends striping all ten together and then using the two additional drives as backup. I think this makes great sense.
Also keep in mind that the SATA controller that comes with the Norco units is PCI-x only, so you will need at least one PCI-e PM controller for the ten drives if your MAC has PCI-e slots, and possibly another two drive controller if you want to run drives in all twelve bays.
David
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I buy my cases from pc-pitstop.com. They have a 12 bay case, which I suspect is made by Datoptic.
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Thanks… great link, just what I was looking for.
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