w00t!

[unixronin]

I am now the owner of a second Sun 711 multipack (6-slot UltraSCSI JBOD disk array) and four spare 336MHz UltraSparc-II processors for my Sun Ultra Enterprise 3000, for the princely sum of $40 shipped ... and $8 of that was PayPal's money.  As soon as I execute my plan to get both 711s inexpensively populated with 36GB disks, we'll have 396GB of RAID5 online on my NFS/Samba server, which should more than satisfy our network-attached-storage needs for the reasonably foreseeable future.

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[snowtiger61.livejournal.com]

Software RAID5 on Sun Multipacks? Not gonna be pretty from a performance viewpoint. :(

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, we'll see how the performance goes. If minbar turns out to be undesirably slow driving them, I have two options for improving the situation: I have an Ultra2 with dual 400MHz CPUs that I could put them on instead, or I have a pair of Mylex DAC960 hardware RAID controllers that I could put in minbar ... but they're not necessarily going to be much faster.