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Posted by: waynestewart on 2015-11-16 10:52:16
Picked up a couple of XRAIDs. Couldn’t resist, they had 14 500gb ATA drives each. I bought them for the drives but I may try getting one going. I do have some Fibre Channel cards and cables.
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Posted by: Hotdog Zanzibar on 2015-11-18 11:35:07
PowerPC or Intel?
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Posted by: waynestewart on 2015-11-18 12:00:16
The XRAIDs are RAID arrays. I have some pci Fibre Channel cards so I'd likely try with a MDD or maybea G5. I have 3 G4 Xserves so I could also use one of them .
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2015-11-18 12:05:09
They're still perfectly good, aren't they? I seem them for pretty cheap. I mean... what's changed over the past few years other than HDD capacity?
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Posted by: johnklos on 2015-11-18 12:14:28
They are good, except that 750 gig PATA disks are expensive and rather old, so it isn't worth the money.
On the other hand, the controllers will support drives up to 2 TB. I tested drives using IDE-SATA adapters and they worked fine. I even upgraded an XRAID from 500 gig disks to new 1 TB 2.5" SATA drives for a client because they did not have the money for a new chassis and it's been running fine for a couple of years now.
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2015-11-18 14:45:37
They would be cool just for the drives (if they didn't have too many hours on them) if the units are cheap enough.
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