Lotsa-drive cases (was: Re: raid controller recommendation)

[Jesse Keating]

On Friday 12 December 2003 18:16, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> Jesse, could you recommend some specific cases and comment on the
> ext3 thing?

as to the ext3, it's just slow.  Disk I/O comparison vs JFS, Reiserfs, 
XFS, and especially ext2 show ext3 to be very slow.

> I've done some looking but simply cannot find stuff I like for a
> 12-or-more-drives rackmount case. I'm not looking for the space
> shuttle here, since the thing is for a home or SOHO server... but I
> would like to put in a 2-drive RAID-1 array for the OS, a 12-drive
> RAID-5 array, and a CD-RW... so it looks like I need 15 bays to build
> my dream home system.

For 12 drives, and CDRW stuff, you're looking at the 3u racksize.  Even 
then you'll most likely only find chassis that have slim CDR[W] 
options.  Something like this:  

http://www.chenbro.com.tw/product/product.jsp?p=3&s=305

> And I've only used ext2 earlier and now ext3 on Linux, so I have no
> idea what else I could/would/should use.

FC1 supports ext2, ext3, reiserfs, jfs, and a few other file systems.

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