does anyone know anything about this picture?

[paul9]

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Originally Posted by Bizkitkid2001

The thing that I am wondering about is what IDE controller cards did he use?

all of them

[Siliconjunkie]

Real men don't use IDE. SCSI.

[Bizkitkid2001]

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Originally Posted by paul9

all of them

I ment what brand and what model. Obviously he used every open IDE port he had

[Siliconjunkie]

I doubt it is 2TB.

I have 2 of these http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...sPageName=WDVW in my office right now, and with 36 gig drives (common size for hot-swap SCSIs) it is only about 860 GB. You would have to goto 72 gig drives to get to 1.6 TB and would still be 20% short.

I guess they COULD be IDE drives, just not very likely. With the 2 device per channel limit and usually 2 channels per controller, that would be 8 controllers and the associated mass of cables from the actual machine to the storage cabinet. Anyone who was thinking when they did something like this in the last 5 years would use fibre channel instead of regular SCSI or IDE.

[Bizkitkid2001]

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Originally Posted by Siliconjunkie

I doubt it is 2TB.

I have 2 of these http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...sPageName=WDVW in my office right now, and with 36 gig drives (common size for hot-swap SCSIs) it is only about 860 GB. You would have to goto 72 gig drives to get to 1.6 TB and would still be 20% short.

I guess they COULD be IDE drives, just not very likely. With the 2 device per channel limit and usually 2 channels per controller, that would be 8 controllers and the associated mass of cables from the actual machine to the storage cabinet. Anyone who was thinking when they did something like this in the last 5 years would use fibre channel instead of regular SCSI or IDE.

They are IDE drivers. Can you NOT see the IDE cables running from the back of the drives?

[Siliconjunkie]

PLEASE tell me how you can determine that they are IDE by the rounded cables?

Do you think that IDE are the only cables that you can round?

Also, the distance limits of IDE make an external cabinet useless. I highly doubt there is a motherboard in there.

[Bizkitkid2001]

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Originally Posted by Siliconjunkie

PLEASE tell me how you can determine that they are IDE by the rounded cables?

Do you think that IDE are the only cables that you can round?

Also, the distance limits of IDE make an external cabinet useless. I highly doubt there is a motherboard in there.

Look at how big the cables are? THey are too thick to even be SATA cables. Also, look at the top of the case, see how at the end of the cable it spreads like and IDE? Also there is a mobo in there, or else it would be kinda pointless to have a PCI card in there not connected to the mobo.

Anyways, I KNOW these are IDE cables as this picture has been posted ebfore with the specs.

[LeftCoast]

If you ask me, anything over 20-22 HDDs is OVERKILL, and just plain showing off.

[Siliconjunkie]

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Originally Posted by Bizkitkid2001

Look at how big the cables are? THey are too thick to even be SATA cables. Also, look at the top of the case, see how at the end of the cable it spreads like and IDE? Also there is a mobo in there, or else it would be kinda pointless to have a PCI card in there not connected to the mobo.

Anyways, I KNOW these are IDE cables as this picture has been posted ebfore with the specs.

FYI, SATA cables are SMALLER than IDE, SCSI is nearly identical to IDE (both ribbon). Older SCSI is almost identical to IDE, even the connector.

And, when you deal with servers, external storage is the norm. Servers themselves have fairly limited internal storage < 6 bays.

Dispite what somebody posted, I doubt it is IDE. IF it is, whoever built it wasn't too bright. To make use of all those drives you would have no expansion room and it would be a million little volumes since you cannot hook all of those drives to 1 IDE RAID controller. Unless they just had the drives laying around and ALOT of free time.

And lookie what we have here! Round SCSI cables...
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...47078&CatId=70

Still say you know exactly what is in there? Also, don't see a PCI card anywhere in there.

[VERT]

Thats quite an old picture and because of this I would imagine the harddrives wouldn't be particulary big in size