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It connects via a big thick SAS cable, which plugs into a Dell PERC 6/E controller with a battery backup unit, and 512MB of RAM. The RAM is on the controller, sitting in the host server, not in the array itself. The controller does all the work - the array is essentially just a big, rackmounted box of disks.
It connects via a big thick SAS cable, which plugs into a Dell PERC 6/E controller with a battery backup unit, and 512MB of RAM. The RAM is on the controller, sitting in the host server, not in the array itself. The controller does all the work - the array is essentially just a big, rackmounted box of disks.


It's currently connected to [[Ceiling_cat]] for initial testing, as we'll need to turn off the final host server to install it. We're planning to do this over the next few weeks, after exams.
It was connected in February 2010 to Minerva and took over the storage of /storage, which holds member home directories and webspace.


[[Category:Hardware]]
[[Category:Hardware]]

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