neilybealy
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Ordered an n40l this morning 
PAH said:Does in mine.
I've put an Icy Box IB-172sk-b in mine to get an extra 3.5" and 2.5" drive capacity.
It works with the existing single molex power connector in the upper bay, and accepts two sata connectors, the spare one direct from the motherboard and one via the eSata port on the back. Got the idea from someone that did the same earlier in an older part of this thread.
The review on Amazon is right in that the Icy Box does feel a bit flimsy, but it does the job well enough if you're not going to be wanting to open the drive bays too often.
I currently have the O/S on the 250gb drive in the 3.5" bay and intend using a 2.5" drive for the O/S at some point.
For the eSata to Sata cable I just got a cheap one from Scan. Ideally a shorter cable would be better so it doesn't take up as much room coiled behind the upper bay.
theronkinator said:Anyone fancy donating their 1GB ram for postage costs to help me out?![]()
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theronkinator said:Anyone fancy donating their 1GB ram for postage costs to help me out?![]()
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The HP P410 is a hardware RAID 5 card that supports hotplug SATA and is plug and play in the Microserver. All thats needed to be done is to unplug the SAS 8087 connector from the motherboard and insert it into the HP card.just wondering if anyone has managed to get a SATA RAID card in the unit that can do RAID 5 and then plug the HDD's into it ?
The HP P410 is a hardware RAID 5 card that supports hotplug SATA and is plug and play in the Microserver. All thats needed to be done is to unplug the SAS 8087 connector from the motherboard and insert it into the HP card.
well thanks great news... is this the card you suggest ?
/vmfs/volumes # time dd if=/dev/zero of=RAID5/test bs=1M count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
real 0m 5.08s
user 0m 2.83s
sys 0m 0.00s
/vmfs/volumes # time dd of=/dev/null if=RAID5/test bs=1M count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
real 0m 7.66s
user 0m 3.41s
sys 0m 0.00s
/vmfs/volumes # time dd of=/dev/null if=RAID5/test bs=1M count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
real 0m 8.04s
user 0m 4.12s
sys 0m 0.00s
/vmfs/volumes # time dd of=/dev/null if=RAID5/test bs=1M count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
real 0m 7.96s
user 0m 4.30s
sys 0m 0.00s
/vmfs/volumes # ls -alh RAID5/test
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1000.0M Dec 20 03:53 RAID5/test
/vmfs/volumes # rm RAID5/test
[email protected] ~ $ time dd if=/dev/zero of=./test bs=1M count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 23.4769 s, 44.7 MB/s
real 0m23.600s
user 0m0.030s
sys 0m20.889s
[email protected] ~ $ time dd of=/dev/null if=./test bs=1M count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 42.3107 s, 24.8 MB/s
real 0m42.337s
user 0m0.027s
sys 0m4.386s
[email protected] ~ $ ls -alh test
-rw-r--r-- 1 dgau dgau 1000M Dec 20 03:58 test
[email protected] ~ $ rm test
[email protected] ~ $
the P410/512 is super expensive considering i'm going to put it in a $250 PC.
at $37 the 256 is fine as i'm not going to be using it for anything to intensive
it will more then likely be a FreeNAS device.
will use freeNAS or a standard ubuntu 10.04 LTE as a NAS server.
just picked up the p410/256 for $37
nix said:Would this: LaCie Firewire 400 and 800 USB 2.0 PCI Card: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories fit in the server if I've already got a graphics card in there?
I hope you're sitting down.nix said:Ah. Not noticed. Thanks. Any half height recommendations? Would this http://www.scan.co.uk/products/lycom-pe-107-pci-e-2-port-firewire-800-(1394b)-and-1-port-firewire-400-(1394a)-card be ok?
cruk said:Can anyone link me to a working esata cable? The 0.5m i got from ebay didnt work.