[ale] what to do with dozens of 40GB IDE drives?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 20:42 -0400, Christopher Bergeron wrote:

> 
> Your guys' thoughts?   What would you do with 40 40GB IDE drives?

Dig up a bunch of add-on IDE cards and a big box with a LOT of fans,
drive bays, and a large, redundant power supply. Typical mother board
has 3-5 pci slots. The add-on IDE cards support the faster protocol with
the good cables on all 4 IDE sockets. So each card will support 8
drives. (I saw these as Microcenter a while back. I have one. somewhere)
So, 2 cards plus the mobo 4 drives eats 20 hard drives. If you go for
raw speed, back the drive count down to one drive per socket for a total
of 10 per box (which will make the power supply happier, too). That make
for ~ 400G net attached storage if using just raid 0.

The bracket that is used to mount shelves on the wall with a little clip
make a good drive rail to do a bit of drilling on for holding 10 hard
drives. You will need 4 and some creative bending and drilling.
Basically if you gut a case to remove the 5.25 drive bays and the
standard 3.5's, you run the racking from top to bottom.

You will need to mod the IDE cables to make them round for air flow
issues.

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