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What is really startling when you first see the E4 is how small it is for the power it contains. Beneath the vented front door are four (4) bays in which to house SAS or SATA drives. Toss in four 1 or 1.5 TB drives and your in business for a huge amount of storage accessible in a very fast way. Those with performance in mind can just as easily populate the E4 with 15,000 rpm SAS drives and connect the E4 via Mini-SAS which is what we have selected for this review. A lot of storage capacity in SAS drives will cost you a small kings ransom but if you must have access to your data with no time to spare its the only way to fly.
Now that we have selected our interface for our needs and populated the E4 with 4 Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 drives at 73.5 GB each, we can begin. The 73.5 GB of space means we don’t have a lot of storage to play with, we will be configuring the drives in a RAID 0 +1 for multiple reasons:
- Speed is king but we want redundancy as well
- We have identical drives so this is easy
- We will be using the Array as a main boot partition (Watch windows fly)
Sas drives are available in up to 450GB capacities from Seagate so if you want both speed and storage you can certainly have it, just be prepared to spend quite a bit.
For our setup we will be attaching the E4 to a Highpoint 2322 Controller Card, but you can select any of the ones below:
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