Take a look at 3ware.com, their escalade raid cards are pretty nifty, and fairly well supported in linux. Their newest 7850 cards (which pricewatch.com lists for about $510) will support 160 eide hard drives (may require an update to the card). 8 160 gig drives will give you 1120 gigs, for about $2500 (drives+card). Note that the newer cards are 64-bit PCI cards. I've got a couple of their older 4-port 6000 series cards running under linux and have been quite happy with them. I believe these card support hot-swap but my application didn't require it so I didn't get hot-swap canisters. I believe that Promise makes a 6-port eide raid card that also works well with linux. 6 120 gig drives would give you your target 500 gigs. IIRC, their products are still 32-bit PCI cards. You can probably find out more information at www.promise.com. Jeff On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Paul Overby wrote: > Is it possible to implement an ide raid solution providing 500 gig > storage capacity? > I am assuming ide would provide the lowest cost which is the principle > consideration. > however there is a desire for hot swappable drives which I thought would > require scsi. > > > NAS and SAN are probably not in the price range. > > Performace is not really a principle issue and a software raid > implementation is probably > adequate. > > > Clay Fandre wrote: > > > > Direct attached, NAS, SAN, SCSI, IDE? More specifics please. > > > > Paul Overby wrote: > > > What's a good raid device in the 500 gig range. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >