[NTLUG:Discuss] NAS devices

[Ralph]

Howdy,
  I am trying to figure how these backplanes work.  Are SATA drives all
setup with the same location for power and data connectors?  If not,
then only certain drives would work in the Chenbro RM21508T2-BH case you
point to.  I don't find any documentation on that.

 So, it would seem that I would need to order something like the
following:
 Chenbro RM21508T2-BH    chassis and sata backplane  $330
 Zippy R2W-6460P   redundant power supply    $376
 TYAN S2925G2NR AM2 nForce Prof 3400 ATX Server Motherboard  $200
 AMD Phenom 9650 2.3GHz  $200
 4 gig ram (2 2gig DDR2 sticks)  $110
 3ware 9550SXU-8LP 64bit/133MHz PCI-X SATA II RAID  $463

  I think that is everything except for hard drives and I have not found
those yet.  I have not looked hard, either.  I figured I needed to know
if any Enterprise Sata drive would work or just certain ones.
Does this seem like a good setup?  I have a feeling it may be overkill
on CPU power, but it is not that expensive and I have been moderate on
everything else.  Maybe too moderate, but I would like other opinions on
that.
Thanks,
Ralph


On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 17:35 -0500, Preston Hagar wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Ralph <sfreader at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > Preston,
> >  That looks like a good set of hardware for a roll your own solution,
> > particularly if you say it is reliable hardware.  I can tell that I need
> ...>
> 
> Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, I only use this email
> address for mailling lists and don't check it very regularly.
> 
> Anyway, the link to the chassis at Servers Direct I send it basically
> just an empty case with a SATA backplane in it.  You have to add your
> own hardware.  The power supply I would get from servers direct, and
> the rest I usually would buy from provantage.com or newegg.com.