Re: SuperMicro H8SSL-i (ServerWorks HT1000) -- JMR SATAStor 6x2.5" in 1x5.25" array

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:50:48PM -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> BTW, if you really like the Sunfire x2100 for its 4x 2.5"

It's X4100. The X2100 is a different beast.

> notebook hard drives array, consider the JMR SATAStor which

SAS drives are enterprise class, and have an equivalent price tag.

> has 6x 2.5" notebook hard drives in a 5.25" bay:  
>  
> http://www.jmr.com/solutions/collateral/serial_ata/SATAStor.pdf

That looks interesting. The airflow vents look too narrow, though, and
there's no cooling redundancy. Are there any 24/7/365 specced
2.5" SATA drives? I'm not aware of any. Laptop drives seem to frequently
fail within a year in a server environment (I actually have a 60 GByte
Samsung drive in a mini-ITX system, but it is not currently under load).
  
> The guys over at ExtremeTech took a 12 SATA port 3Ware
> Escalade 9500S-12 card and two of these and did some
> benchmarks.  Although I will point out the benchmarks are
> _useless_ because they put the card in a standard
> 32-bit@33MHz PCI slot (133MBps theoretical) and ... tada ...
> they didn't see really anything better than 120MBps!  Duh!
>   http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1644544,00.asp  

Ridiculously overpriced.

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