I have to share my success (and brag a little) with people who can appreciate my accomplishment

[Glendor]

My excitement was completely wasted on my wife and kids, so I'm here to proclaim my success!

The Problem: I took in trade a bunch of SCSI harddrives. Most were 10000rpm SCSI3 drives (2x9GB, 4x18GB, 1x36GB, 1x72GB). Not knowing much about SCSI I thought I had a goldmine. Little did I know, SCA needed an adapter before it could be used on my 68pin cable.

The Solution: I bought a 5 drive hot-swappable drive cage from a Proliant 2500 server on eBay (about $15). One molex power plug on the back, one 68ping SCSI plug, and would fit in my case. I also bought several dead 4GB hot-swappable Compaq drive caddies from the same model server (about $10 each)

The Results: More SCSI than I know what to do with! I'm still playing around with all the RAID combination possible

I haven't been brave enough to try to hot swap a drive yet. I don't know if the system's ability to recover from that is a feature of the OS, the hot swap caddy, or the SCSI card, or all of the above.

It looks D@mn cool. If anybody wants to see pics, email me at glendor@swbell.net

Thanks for reading

Glendor...

 

[AndyHui]

The ProLiant 2500 is the Dual Pentium Pro 200's right? (well, they come with just 1 CPU as default).

The Hot Swap capability is a feature of the RAID5 card itself. The OS does not need to worry about it. You will need to configure the array as RAID5 in order to seamlessly remove a hard drive and replace it without the system going down.

 

[Glendor]

I'm not using the RAID card out of the Proliant, I'm using an Adaptec 24160n (I think that is the model) instead. The Proliant RAID card is HUGE, and I don't know if it will run in my case, but under the circumstances, I think I might give it a try anyway

Thanks for the advice.

Anybody else?

Have a good weekend,
Glendor...

 

[ProviaFan]

Woah, nice SCSI setup! Sounds like that will give you good performance for quite some time. It would probably be best if you RAID the 4 18GB drives, and also the 2 9GB ones if you like, and run the others separately. That should give you the best performance, but you might need earplugs around your computer.

 

[Glendor]

Actually, the CPU fan is louder than all the drives combined, and they produce less heat than my two 7200 IDE drives. Quite a surprise

Thanks for the advice. I'm trying to secure a SCSI RAID card. I have the 3200 card from the Proliant server, but I don't know if it will work in my desktop or if it will only work in the Proliant.

Glendor...

 

[Glendor]

Update and evening bump.

 

[GregANDTCH]

Sounds Good to me!
I like seeing parts put to good use.

 

[Calin]

That's a great feature - lot of space and lot of speed, with probably not so much money. If the Compaq SCSI card would fit in your PC (i.e. is PCI and not PCI64), you might use it at least for some of the drives.
And I know what you feel - I felt the same when I cut my hair and noone observed

Calin