After getting the last parts, I finally got around to setting up my SCSI array. The IBM ServeRAID cards pulls from Computer Geeks. These are pretty monstrous cards. They’re full length with 5 orange status LEDs on the back. The actual board has 3 Adaptec AIC-7880P chips, a PowerPC 403GC controller, and 3 other custom IBM chips. It apparently supports up to 45 SCSI-2 fast/wide drives, configurable in RAID 0, 1, 5, w/ failover and hot-swapping. (Newsgroup discussion of some of the particulars) The ServeRAID Manager software is also rather nifty.
Coupled with the pair of Ultra SCSI 5GB Fujitsu drives I picked up on the cheap, it runs louder, hotter, and transfers slower than the Western Digital 120GB drive I’ve been using for the past few months (being moved to my file server system), but um… that’s besides the point, right?