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netwraith · 07-06-2008, 08:58 AM

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Final update: After much fooling around with these, I am going to abandon the effort and put my time into other projects. The clearance between the boards and drives is too tight for my adapters and I am not going to go through every adapter in the business to find on that will fit without modifications. The modifications to the boards I bought (right angling the capacitors) works, but, if you are not careful, you can damage the adapter board. So, this is, in my opinion, not a great use of time. I will invest my time in upgrading the unit I will keep and spend the rest of my time on OpenFiler units. The OpenFiler software is now pretty damn good and if you couple it with a good hardware RAID, you get a (in my opinion) superior unit. My main unit is now a 24 drive SATA drive chassis w/dual Areca PCIe RAID controllers on a SuperMicro dual XEON board. A couple of GB of DDR2 ram and dual Gigabit onboards round it out. I added a fiber Gigabit and FCAL RAID adapter to service my older Clariion storage unit. I won't say what I paid for all this, but, it was not inconsequential. It's not for everyone, but, it's gonna be my path here on out...

07-06-2008, 08:58 AM	#22
netwraith Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Hampshire USA Posts: 24	Re: Using SATA adapter to mimic PATA/IDE drive. -- Final update: After much fooling around with these, I am going to abandon the effort and put my time into other projects. The clearance between the boards and drives is too tight for my adapters and I am not going to go through every adapter in the business to find on that will fit without modifications. The modifications to the boards I bought (right angling the capacitors) works, but, if you are not careful, you can damage the adapter board. So, this is, in my opinion, not a great use of time. I will invest my time in upgrading the unit I will keep and spend the rest of my time on OpenFiler units. The OpenFiler software is now pretty damn good and if you couple it with a good hardware RAID, you get a (in my opinion) superior unit. My main unit is now a 24 drive SATA drive chassis w/dual Areca PCIe RAID controllers on a SuperMicro dual XEON board. A couple of GB of DDR2 ram and dual Gigabit onboards round it out. I added a fiber Gigabit and FCAL RAID adapter to service my older Clariion storage unit. I won't say what I paid for all this, but, it was not inconsequential. It's not for everyone, but, it's gonna be my path here on out...