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Roll your own low cost 1.2 terrabyte SATA RAID
Since many here have expressed interst in building a their own low cost/high quality hot-swappable SATA raid, I’m offering this simple recipe. I just built mine in under 10-minutes for $1129.00 total, including a 4-port SATA controller card. Its amazing!!! I’m running Raid-0 at 260Mbps.
(4) Maxline III 300gb SATA hard drives @ $125 —– $500.00
(1) SeriTek/2eEN4 Bundle —– $629.00
TOTAL $1129.00https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144032
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8 Replies
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That’s awesome!
Have a wonderful day.
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hey that firmtek bundle…
quick question on their site it says that their cards will not work with the new g-5’swhat’s the solution ?
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Arty,
They mean it won’t work with the new quad G5s which require PCI Express (PCIe). I think every company is working on creating PCIe SATA cards now, but so far I haven’t seen one. Sonnet is due to release one sometime this month.
DRW
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so anything i get from them will work with my g-5 2.7 dual ?
of course unless i install it wrong ! 😉
thanks
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I’m curious to know if you can sustain the speed when you get above 600GB full. But it sounds like you’re on your way!
Arnie
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You want to buy something that first line of the first review says “This drive sucks”?
Peter
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Peter,
If I hadn’t read numerous comparisons by experts who put Maxline SATAs way out in front of of both Seagate and Hitachi, and if weren’t running my entire business on twelve of them myself, I might also think carefully about them after reading that guy’s review.
DRW
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3Ware is releasing a new product based on their e-sata controllers called SideCar: https://3ware.com/products/Ext_serial_ata2-9000.asp
Buy one per station and you can even swap/shelf disk sets since drives are so cheap as your storage solution.
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Van G
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