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From: matt <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 household shared file server
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:44:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F5AD83.3000809@proweb.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <232bfea2161f3b6f7a9c14bdc30f62cb@coraid.com>

What would you say to $30 + drives ?

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html
SiL 3112 SATA, 3114 SATA/RAID
VIA 82C686, VT8237 SATA/RAID

I've not tried either of these but I am waiting to try one of them out, 
I managed to spec it as part of a different job.

The supported hardware page doesn't mention the RAID side of things but 
as far as I can tell it's all on the cards and they just appear as a 
single drive.

The SiL one is reviewed here :
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/sil-3114.html
The actual controller :
http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=28

Which is built in to some cheap motherboards, for instance the
DFI LANParty UT RDX200 CF-DR

There's a bunch of them on ebay.co.uk for $30

But even brand new they aren't too bad
uk
http://froogle.google.co.uk/froogle?q=LANPARTY+UT+RDX200+CF-DR
us
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=LANPARTY+UT+RDX200+CF-DR

erik quanstrom wrote:
> real hardware raid is generally difficult to get on a hobbist
> budget.
>
> with ken's fileserver you can build raid 0+1 or 1+0 as you please.
> you can access the same functionality on plan 9 with the '#k' device.
> if you're using p9p, you might consider md/lvm.  
>
> - erik
>
>   



  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-12 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-12 17:49 David Leimbach
2007-03-12 18:26 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-12 19:44   ` matt [this message]
2007-03-12 19:19 ` Steve Simon
2007-03-12 19:38   ` David Leimbach
2007-03-12 20:14   ` David Leimbach
2007-03-12 21:10     ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-12 21:42       ` David Leimbach
2007-03-12 21:56         ` David Leimbach
2007-03-13 14:04           ` Richard Bilson
2007-03-13 14:22             ` David Leimbach
2007-03-13 14:29               ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-13 20:10               ` Steve Simon
2007-03-12 21:53     ` Steve Simon
2007-03-13 22:43 ` arisawa
2007-03-13 22:55   ` David Leimbach
2007-03-14  0:03     ` arisawa

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