SATA Raid Chassis

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Paul Duffy

Hi All

I'm looking at a Supermicro SATA Raid chassis with 250gb maxtors (x5) to
give me a proper stripped array (that I can also use the same physical
drives attached to an Abit IC7-G mainboard).

Has anyone used the Supermicro CSE-M35T1 cage and any comments or
feedback on the cage. Having searched the newsgroups I'm concerned that
I cannot find one reference to user experience (which would lead me to
believe either nobody's bought them so ongoing support will be an
issue....or there is a problem with them so the dealer channel isn't
moving them through...)

All input greatfully received and anyone got a recommendation for a good
RAID controlled to go with it.

TIA
 
Paul Duffy said:
Hi All

I'm looking at a Supermicro SATA Raid chassis with 250gb maxtors (x5) to
give me a proper stripped array (that I can also use the same physical
drives attached to an Abit IC7-G mainboard).

Has anyone used the Supermicro CSE-M35T1 cage and any comments or
feedback on the cage. Having searched the newsgroups I'm concerned that
I cannot find one reference to user experience (which would lead me to
believe either nobody's bought them so ongoing support will be an
issue....or there is a problem with them so the dealer channel isn't
moving them through...)

All input greatfully received and anyone got a recommendation for a good
RAID controlled to go with it.
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Haven't used one myself but conceptually they're just an SATA version of the
SCA hot-swap cages that have been around for ages. No real magic to them,
just a backplane with SATA connectors instead of SCA. Only support they're
likely to ever require is replacing a fan.

Personally I'd go with an LSI Logic RAID controller--they've been making
RAID hardware for a long time.

Probably not going to find much feedback on the hot-swap cages--they're not
going to be a "hot item" any more than the SCA hot-swap cages are.
 
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