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Originally Posted by Metal
Well the old HP NAS towers used a 64bit PCI SATA Hardware Raid card and long SATA cables and had a cd-rom on the IDE channel I was going to see if:
a: GOS recognized a Serial ATA hardware raid card
b: See if my other buddy sells 'really' long serial cables. (PartsParadise on eBay)
c: use adapters for the power.
d: thinking 1GB 2.5inch drives might be even easier and use less power if you had the right IDE to SATA adapter.
Since I'm down to one snap no experimentation will be taking place until I get the snap and Disk 10 from my buddies store.
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P L E A S E take any negative comments here as
constructive criticism.
A couple of us looked at this previously, but it has several fatal flaws.
a) GOS only supports a limited number of specific HBA.
b) It has a tendancy to be a "frankenstein" type solution.
c) Costs to get to the end result.
d) Not easy for the average user.
e) For the 2.5" drives, you lose performance, and once again size, and price/GB.
There is plenty more, but this should be enough.
Again, I am not trying to be harsh, just trying to be helpful. The logistics just doesn't work this route.