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Old 5th January 2012
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Thanks phoenix.

I had considered multilane too but between those, multipliers, expanders I was lost in a sea of choices.

The Supermicro card looks good, I know from your previous posts that you're well used to storage setups so I'll take this as gospel advice!

Do you have any experience with enclosures? The idea was that I would keep a few drives in the main desktop for "live" content and downloads, etc... with moving files I don't use that often to the main archive. This way I don't have to have every drive I own receiving power and spinning when the desktop is turned on. If that makes sense. Saving cost basically, hopefully!

E.g.: Addonics Raid Tower IX

A butt load of drives but only really used once a month or when needed to shuffle data around or when I drag it to a hackerspace/conference.
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