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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
>
>