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Date:	Wed, 6 Apr 2005 13:02:33 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: motherboard w/ 16 IDE (was: Question about brand new DaniS506)

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >What manufacturer makes adapters that can connect [16] drives?
>
> There are lots of them. Unfortunately most seem
> to offer only 2 channels per card (i.e. 4 drives).

So a motherboard that has four adapters (8 drives) plus two plug-in
cards (8 more drives) will give me 16 drives. Or a motherboard with two
adapters plus three plug-in cards, I just hate using up all the slots.

Should I instead look at Gigabit Ethernet to a dedicated box holding the
drives? I've never seen a benchmark on this but I know the industry has
been pushing networked data storage for a couple of years so it must
work fairly well.

- Peter

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