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Originally Posted by blue68f100
This thread is gone down hill, but it has been fun.
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Oh come on, we can have a little fun, can't we?
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Originally Posted by blue68f100
There nothing says you can't use a external power power supply. As long as the grounds are tied together for reference it should work. Put all of the drives off the external.
Buy a 8 bay drive unit w/ps then you expand the unit with a 2 drive ribbon connector. Expanding the raid 5 array up to 7-8 drives ( 1 spare). 7 x 300 = 2.1 T - overhead may be 2 tera bytes.
How sweet would this be .........
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2 TB would be sweet, however external drive bays do take away from part of the beauty of a snap server, which is large, easy to configure storage in a small package. Think about it, if we could crack the LBA48 bit issue, you could have 4x750 GB drives in 1U of rack space...