[Klug-general] eSATA

[Stuart Buckland]

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 14:08 +0100, David Halliday wrote:
> Just my 2c, based on what I've been planning on doing for a couple of
> years (but never had the time/money/appropriate hardware). but what
> about housing the drives in an old tower (I'm sure I'm not the only
> person with at least access to a collection of them) with a RAID card
> of some type on a small/old motherboard (generally a home network file
> server doesn't need to be that powerful) with perhaps a small old hard
> disk for the OS providing samba, FTP, NFS or any other file access
> protocol you prefer. then share the RAID over the network. In theory
> this can sit under the stairs (with good ventilation) or anywhere else
> out the way and hum to itself 24/7/365 (why for a moment did i think
> there were 256 days in a year).
> 
> I'm keeping my eyes peeled for a simple RAID 5 (I like the idea my
> stuff is safe when hard disk failure occurs) card that i can use for
> this, similar yo you all i seem to see is RAID cards that aren't up to
> the task or ones that cost a fortune.
> 
> This solution also provides you with many choices for cooling even
> though you have said this isn't an option.
> 
> As i said this is something I've been thinking of for some time any
> advice/ideas would be useful. It just sounds to me like the easiest &
> cheapest (I have everything except the RAID card and disks already
> including an old dell power edge server with 6 well ventilated hard
> drive bays)
> 
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This is pretty much the setup I've had for the past year.  A tower with
5 200GB drives utilising software RAID5 and LVM together with 2 old 20GB
drives mirrored holding the OS.

I'm looking to expand this and the simplest way is to obtain an eSATA
capable enclosure and an eSATA controller, or two of each.

Stu

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Stuart Buckland <stuart at nightime.org.uk>