[mythtv-users] esata drives - experience?

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:

> Anyone have experience with esata drives and port multipliers?
>
> I have a pile of 250 GB and 300 GB IDE drives, and I've been toying with
> the idea of converting them to SATA, then sticking them into an
> enclosure, and plugging the whole mess into an esata port on my server.
>
> Bingo, an extra 750 GB of storage (if I do RAID-5) or 1.1 TB if I do LVM.
>
> So far, I've found this:
>
>
> http://www.caloptic.com/cgi-bin/quikstore.cgi?category=eSATA_Bridge_Adapters
>
> http://www.caloptic.com/cgi-bin/quikstore.cgi?product=SATAII-5Port&detail=yes
> http://www.caloptic.com/cgi-bin/quikstore.cgi?product=PM3726&detail=yes
>
> http://www.caloptic.com/cgi-bin/quikstore.cgi?product=SATAII-5Port-H&detail=yes
>
> They all use the same SIL chipset for the multiplier.
>
> Then use one of these for each drive:
>
>
> http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10407&cs_id=1040701&p_id=327&seq=1&format=2
>
> The enclosure I have.  So for something like $130, I can add about 1 TB
> to my system.  Not a bad deal - if it works.
>
> Thoughts?


Seems like for $130 you might be able to get a decent case, motherboard/cpu
combo (doesn't need much) and a regular IDE PCI board and just build a
server.  Then just iSCSI or NFS mount it back to your main system.  I did
this recently with a stack of 5 160GB drives using a free after rebate case,
leftover boards and memory and buying a SATA/IDE PCI board.  Ended up with
software RAID 5, about 600GB of iSCSI space that I mounted over to my Vista
box for photo storage.

Kevin
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