Recent content by k99ja04

I am running 2007 CCR, but two nodes still need a quorum disk (witness) accessible to both nodes. Right now that is a shared folder on a third server. If that server goes down or is rebooted I break the cluster. Looking at a QNAP TS-219P RAID 1 iSCSI appliance to use as quorum. Pretty...

This is a little experiment to see if I can take a bunch of old JBOD (old is relative as drives < 1 year) that was used as direct attached expansion for another server and build the equivalent of a Dell MD3000 without shelling out $8k. If successful it would be used for production as shared...

Thanks for the reply. It looks like buying the "guts" I'm looking for aftermarket is proving difficult. That chassis would give me dual paths within the same server box, but I was hoping to tie two servers to an external chassis like a Dell MD3000 SAN. Guess I will have to look at running a...

I have 5 Western Digital 2TB RE4-GP drives in a RAID 10 + hotspare setup off Adaptec 51645 running latest adaptec firmware. There is an updated WDC firmware for my drives but I have yet to have an issue so have not flashed them. You pay for these suckers but they are quick. I think they whoop...

So I've pretty much accepted there are no really good SAS how to guides out there (yet), particularly involving SAS expanders. I have struggled to put all the pieces together, but am still confused. So here's the challenge: How can I relatively inexpensively upgrade a JBOD with SAS port...