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CD Servers/Lots of Cd-Roms

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I've been looking to build a cdrom server or mabey fill up some drive bays. But like all motherboards,mine only has 2 controllers,which means only 4 cd-roms.I'm not sure a raid card would work because it doesn't sound like it would. But I know you can have more than 4 Cd-roms because ive seen like 10 cd-rom cd servers. Can someone explain how they do it and what hardware they use? Much appreciated.
 
For what you want to do, you just need to add IDE controllers which will let you put 4 on each controller. You could also go SCSI and have 7 drives connected to each SCSI controller.

For something more advanced:

Procom pretty much wrote the book on CD servers. We have a couple of 64 CD racks here.

There are a number of ways to do this depending on what you want.

If you just need like 7 drives, you can put 7 drives in an external chassis and connect them to a SCSI adapter in your PC. You have to use SCSI CD-ROMS or I think Procom has a chassis that converts SCSI to IDE so you can use cheaper IDE drives.

There are models that have 7 (or more) drives in a chassis with an integrated Ethernet card that you configure via telnet or a web browser then just connect to it from whatever workstation you want. (speed limited by your network speed of course)

The bigger models actually have a motherboard in there that does management for you, security, caching, etc.


 
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