How to create a terabyte storage array?

[Ed Fletcher]

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Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
| Thanks all to discuss this matter.
|
| One more navie question though is that how (or where) do I get a cable
| to connect all 5 HDDs? Normally, an IDE cable comes with dual HDDs
| connection, not multiple, isn't it?
|

You can't have more than two IDE hard drives on a single cable.  And you
should really only have one drive per cable as it will help the array
respond faster.

You need something like a Promise IDE card:

http://pcworld.pricegrabber.com/search_techspecs.php/masterid=419815

Each one has two IDE ports to allow it to control four drives.  But, as
I said, you are better off having one drive per port/cable.  Two cards
will let you have four drives in the array.

I just googled the promise card.  There are lots of others.  I just
happen to have promise cards in my server.

HTH,
Ed
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