Storage Pool Worklog (8bay + 2TB drives + Raid 5)

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So I have given up on my P212 raid card. I have decied to build a new storage pool and have come up with these items. The storage pool will need to be around 50mb+/50mb+ read and write.

8-Bay Enclosure
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816111051R&cm_re=8_bay_enclosure-_-16-111-051R-_-Product

2TB Drives X8
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136456&cm_re=2tb_black-_-22-136-456-_-Product

RAID Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115076&cm_re=highpoint_622-_-16-115-076-_-Product


I wanted to get a better Raid 5 card than the included Rosewill. I will post pics of this once everyting comes in and post speed test.


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OR should I buy this?

8-Bay
http://cgi.ebay.com/SANS-DIGITAL-TR8X-B-TowerRAID-8-Bay-Storage-Enclosure-/250623771305?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item3a5a5742a9

2TB Drives X8
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136456&cm_re=2tb_black-_-22-136-456-_-Product

RAID Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115061&cm_re=2_x_Mini-SAS-_-16-115-061-_-Product


My only question is ask anyone is the SATA build seem smart for the money/speeds? Please tell me if this seems like a good idea or should I get the SAS build? Is there a item I should replace before I buy this today?
 
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You should go with hitachi 2TB instead. I don't know about high point but it will work better with the Areca card if you are going with solution 2. You also have the wrong card for external chassis. You should be looking at the 1222x which has 2 external miniSAS ports to match the same two ports on the sans digital chassis.
 
For 350$ cant you get one of those nice 16bay cases on newegg and allow for future expansion? That 8 bay just seems expensive.
 
Biznatch said:
For 350$ cant you get one of those nice 16bay cases on newegg and allow for future expansion? That 8 bay just seems expensive.
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nitrobass24 said:
Now for $1000 you can do a lot better than 8 bays, but if you want an external enclosure than thats still your best bet.
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I mean $300 for an 8bay with power / backplanes and sas/sata out controllers. The 16bays are built more for NAS designs vs this DAS (what I want).

Total for my setup is only $217+69 or roughly $300. Vs a 16 bay alone for $330+


Nitrobass what do you suggest for a better use of my money?
 
If you want hardware RAID, you could get an Areca 1202 and use it with the enclosure that uses port multipliers.
 
Blue Fox said:
If you want hardware RAID, you could get an Areca 1202 and use it with the enclosure that uses port multipliers.
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I understand people like the Areca brand but that card only has a 400mhz / 128mb ram and cost almost 3 times as much as the highpoint SATA raid card.
 
I think you need to decide what is most important to you because you cant have everything.
Capacity
Speed
$$$

You can have speed and capacity but its going to cost you.
You can have speed for cheap but at half the capacity.
You can have high capacity and mediocre performance for cheap.
 
nitrobass24 said:
I think you need to decide what is most important to you because you cant have everything.
Capacity
Speed
$$$

You can have speed and capacity but its going to cost you.
You can have speed for cheap but at half the capacity.
You can have high capacity and mediocre performance for cheap.
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Capacity is 8 X 2 TB or 16TB (RAID 5 so around 12TB)
Speed is 50+ read/write
$ I think I gave two designs that I would think would give the best results.

How can I improve on the design? (The only limited factor is cost of esata vs sas, based on going above 50mb read/write)
Any help would be greatly thanked!
 
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Isn't NewEgg's deal on the 2TB WD Blacks over Monday?
... or have you already ordered them, or have them?
 
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