DIY multiple drive enclosures...

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I am looking at setting up some sort of an enclosure where I could add and manage drives-in a higher volume. I found a case, and some back planes, and I could grow it up to 15 drives, however, I am not sure how I could control it.

I am not in need of crazy throughput. I'd like to run a set of disks in raid5, or, possibly all of them.

I am trying to figure out how I would control it. I am thinking a decent controller card and an esata cable from pc to the enclosure. I found a sata hub, looking for thoughts.

Sata hub
http://www.sataport.com/

Sata backplane
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817332011

Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811164079

I think this would be a decent way to go, as it has room to grow. I have a 3 into 2 sata backplane now, and I figure I would start with that, and as time goes on, go with the 5 into 3's and add drives as needed.

At the price of drives, it would have great potential for file storage.
 
drizzt81 said:
nice idea, the port-multiplier are the expensive part.
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I need to find more info on the port multiplier, but, I am thinking, add them in groups of 5 and set them up in raid5 groups.

Performance won't be a huge issue with me, but I figure with raid 5, the redundancy should be better then none:)
 
I love the idea, I'd be all over it, if I needed more storage at the moment. :)
 
I like it a lot also...what do you need controller-wise to connect to that port multipler?
 
TeedOff said:
I like it a lot also...what do you need controller-wise to connect to that port multipler?
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esata and a cable.

The controller has a few settings, you can use all 5 drives as 1 large drive, has some mirroring settings. No raid 5 though:(

Right now I have 4 drives internal and 2 external, I'd like to eliminate the mess and just get a decent setup with space to expand.
 
sc0tty8 said:
esata and a cable.

The controller has a few settings, you can use all 5 drives as 1 large drive, has some mirroring settings. No raid 5 though:(
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That is your controller, right? I mean the SATA hub does not force you to span the disks or anything, does it? In the end, I'd use it with Linux and LSR anyway.
 
I was headed this way until I ran into Windows Home Server (WHS), $170. I paired it with an old 3200+ system I had collecting dust and swapped a couple of $30 SATA cards I had into it to create a 10 SATA port setup and I'm populating 8 of them (plus I'm using 3 of 4 available IDE devices). I have a server now that runs headless, backs up other pc's, remote desktop access, web access, some nice add-ins for it, and it was super easy to set up.

Don't know if this works for you, but I posted some info and screenshots of my setup in this thread.

Edit: Newegg link - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116395
 
[LYL]Homer;1031976527 said:
I was headed this way until I ran into Windows Home Server (WHS), $170. I paired it with an old 3200+ system I had collecting dust and swapped a couple of $30 SATA cards I had into it to create a 10 SATA port setup and I'm populating 8 of them (plus I'm using 3 of 4 available IDE devices). I have a server now that runs headless, backs up other pc's, remote desktop access, web access, some nice add-ins for it, and it was super easy to set up.

Don't know if this works for you, but I posted some info and screenshots of my setup in this thread.

Edit: Newegg link - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116395
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Yeah I saw you setup.

I was thinking of a WHS box, I still don't know...

Any idea where I could find a pair of pci sata controllers? It would prob be cheaper to go the WHS route and just add in a drive here and there....
 
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