[ale] what to do with dozens of 40GB IDE drives?

[Captain SaveRite]

If you have some bandwidth to spare .. you could
contribute to the Internet Backplane research project
by setting up an IBP node(s). I know that other
universities participate by setting up nodes.
I've seen demos and they are awesome.

http://loci.cs.utk.edu/modules.php?name=Projects&pa=showpage&pid=3_1

Thanks,
sriad

--- Christopher Bergeron <christopher at bergeron.com>
wrote:

> Hey guys -
> 
> I just took ownership of 25 (to 50) brand new 40 GB
> Hard Disk drives, 
> and I have no clue what to do with them.  I run an
> LTSP shop ( ltsp 
> rocks! ), so my machines don't need HD's.  I
> optimized the hell out of 
> them as much as I can (they're running dnetc/seti
> clients, etc).  I just 
> realized that I have dozens of 40GB drives that
> aren't even being 
> powered up, and I'm trying to figure out how to put
> them to good use.  
> I'd like to create a fileserver array, but I'm not
> sure where to begin.  
> I've looked at NFS, but the LTSP clients network
> boot over NFS, so I 
> don't want to over complicate the network by having
> the clients act as 
> NFS servers too.
> 
> Does anyone know of any hardware that I can plug
> 'lots' of IDE drives 
> into?  I've looked at SAN / Disk Array solutions but
> they all seem to 
> ship WITH drives.  I'd love to find a 12 or 15 disk
> case and backplane 
> that I can populate with my own IDE drives.  Does
> such a beast exist?
> 
> Also, before/if it's suggested, I've already
> designated several of these 
> drives for charity.
> 
> Your guys' thoughts?   What would you do with 40
> 40GB IDE drives?
> 
> Thanks again,
> CB
> 
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Thanks,
Anonymous Coward


		
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