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kogvos · 01-05-2006, 07:48 PM

Hi there,

There are a lot of people on here who know a great deal more about these things than I do so what I'm going to say will probably be corrected as the thread progresses.

Unfortunately you are stuck with 128MB on each disk regardless of the software version. I bought a 120G model a little while ago without discs and put 4 x 160GB drives in it and I can only get that despite running the latest software on it. It seems to be that the Promise IDE controllers are not set to allow large drives although the chips themselves do support it.

I've just upgraded the RAM in it to 256MB because the standard 64MB stick woud not allow the creation of a RAID5 array and althogh it had been working OK in a mirrored arrangement, recently it went into a kernel panic and corrupted all the data.

Others have recommended a Kingston PC100 RAM stick as the machine only uses PC100 however low profile PC100 seems very expensive now. I managed to get a 256MB PC133 stick very cheaply - KVR133X72C3L/256. Its ECC RAM but the Snap doesn't care about that.

Overall, I think the earlier model - the 4000 - is much more flexible since it is a 2RU design it can use standard height RAM and it can access 300GB or more on each disk.

Regards,

Jamie

01-05-2006, 07:48 PM	#2
kogvos Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Brisbane Posts: 4	Re: Snap 4100 confusion Hi there, There are a lot of people on here who know a great deal more about these things than I do so what I'm going to say will probably be corrected as the thread progresses. Unfortunately you are stuck with 128MB on each disk regardless of the software version. I bought a 120G model a little while ago without discs and put 4 x 160GB drives in it and I can only get that despite running the latest software on it. It seems to be that the Promise IDE controllers are not set to allow large drives although the chips themselves do support it. I've just upgraded the RAM in it to 256MB because the standard 64MB stick woud not allow the creation of a RAID5 array and althogh it had been working OK in a mirrored arrangement, recently it went into a kernel panic and corrupted all the data. Others have recommended a Kingston PC100 RAM stick as the machine only uses PC100 however low profile PC100 seems very expensive now. I managed to get a 256MB PC133 stick very cheaply - KVR133X72C3L/256. Its ECC RAM but the Snap doesn't care about that. Overall, I think the earlier model - the 4000 - is much more flexible since it is a 2RU design it can use standard height RAM and it can access 300GB or more on each disk. Regards, Jamie