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tip: cheap internal RAID for HD and such

 

 


fubbi
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Jun 18, 2008, 7:44 AM

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I just thought I'd post this because I have it running for two years now and I still havent found anything as cheap and fast:

I get 260 megs per second with the following configuration inside a G5 tower, raided with apple disk utility with 256k blocks:

• 1X: 4 internal esata busses for 150 bucks
Sonnet Tempo SATAII X4i PCI-X 4x
• 4X: 1GB esata drives for about 100$ a pop:
Samsung SpinPoint F1 Series for example
• drive cage for internal mounting, 150 bucks?
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/g5_jive.html

that will give you an internal 4TB monsterfast raid(or JBOD if you will).

fubbi


skulpture
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Jun 18, 2008, 8:22 AM

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hehe nice one fubbi.

I hear/see a lot of people doing similar things these days.
I keep meaning to make something similar myself but I have absoltely NO idea as to go about constructing one.

Funny enough I ran a fashion show on Friday with all my visual clips running of my 250 hard drive and it did not crash once. So its something i'm going to look into.

Can I ask....

- How noisy is the 4TB you've made?
- What power source does it use, because (excuse my zero hardware knowledge once again) is s-video looking and easily falls out, I am constantly checking it during gigs.
- Is it heavy or could you carry it in a back-pack? (Weird question i'm sorry but I have no car and I am just wondering!)

Sorry for all the questions Fubbi! Cool


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fubbi
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Jun 18, 2008, 8:34 AM

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hehe nice one fubbi.

I hear/see a lot of people doing similar things these days.
I keep meaning to make something similar myself but I have absoltely NO idea as to go about constructing one.

Funny enough I ran a fashion show on Friday with all my visual clips running of my 250 hard drive and it did not crash once. So its something i'm going to look into.

Can I ask....

- How noisy is the 4TB you've made?

Not noisy at all, at least I never even though about it. It never started the internal fan either.

- What power source does it use, because (excuse my zero hardware knowledge once again) is s-video looking and easily falls out, I am constantly checking it during gigs.

you just daisychain the internal power. chain cable is included with the cage.

- Is it heavy or could you carry it in a back-pack? (Weird question i'm sorry but I have no car and I am just wondering!)

it is internal, wich means built into your tower/desktop computer.

You could build it into a portable disk tower, but you loose the four buses that the sonnet tempo card gives you. each of the drives have it's own highway with those and that's what gives you the real speed.

I would recommend getting a prebuilt enclosure with internal hardware raiding for portable use.

fub

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