NASLite Network Attached Storage

is there a maximum amount of harddrives that naslite2 can handle? or is there a maximum amount of TB's? or is it all unlimited as long as you can actually get lots of drives into the computer...

not sure about any max, but I'm up to 16 drives and over 11 TB. have plans to go higher, building a case now that can handle 64 drives, though I don't plan on filling it anytime this decade(or next).

What kind of drives are you running? IDE or SATA? Are you running RAID? I have 5 SATA and 1 IDE drive. I would like to add more, but having troubles adding an additional controller card. I am running into IRQ conflicts.

[quote="benyboi"]is there a maximum amount of harddrives that naslite2 can handle? or is there a maximum amount of TB's? or is it all unlimited as long as you can actually get lots of drives into the computer...[/quote]

I think older RAID card (i.e.) adaptec 2610SAhas a 2TB max per array. I read somewhere that windows have 2TB limit too. Not sure if that's still the case.

[quote="benyboi"]is there a maximum amount of harddrives that naslite2 can handle? or is there a maximum amount of TB's? or is it all unlimited as long as you can actually get lots of drives into the computer...[/quote]

I think older RAID card (i.e.) adaptec 2610SAhas a 2TB max per array. I read somewhere that windows have 2TB limit too. Not sure if that's still the case.

4 ide, rest sata. no raid just single drives.

http://www.serverelements.com/naslite-comparison.php


this page states 128 drives

You are correct that the older Adaptec hardware RAID controllers do have a 2TB limit (fixed on newer devices)

Various flavors of windows such as XP also has a 2TB limit. Newer versions like XP64, Server2003 and lots of the Vista seem to have taken care of this problem (see the Adaptec FAQ, there is an entry on which MS OS works)

Can anyone tell me if NASLite will work with a hardware RAID that presents a single drive greater than 2TB (I am trying to get 5TB to work)?

Thanks....

i have a standard mother board with sata II connections and drives. no raid. but the motherboard only has 4 ports... is there any pci cards that have a few sata II ports on them? i couldnt find any... wel, i found some with 1 port on but do they exist with 4+ ports?

thanks.