How to configure 36 disks ?

[Greg Freemyer]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jon Hardcastle
<jd_hardcastle at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to understand how you even go attaching that many devices to a system.. I am 'comparatively' new to this.. and have a 6 raid5 system.. not enterprise.. and i have slammed into case/power/sat slot issues already. What sort of hardware must one use to grow to a 36 array system!

For the drives you could get a few big enclosures:

http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_enclosures/sat122urd.asp
http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_enclosures/scsas16rm.asp

I don't think these offer PMP (port multiplexer) support.  I would
look for ones that did if you're serious about doing something like
this.

If you used PMP with 4x drives per sata port, you would only need 9
sata ports in the PC to control the 36 drives.  Not sure what the
limits of PMP is, but 4x seems reasonable to me.

Greg
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