So as the title states I got the drives for my iSCSI project, but I am actually missing a SATA cable that I need to get. Once I have that then I will be able to complete my configuration and be able to start backing things up and also playing around with the snap copies. Darn SATA cables, if it isn’t one thing then it is another that gets in the way of building my projects.

So just for reference I went with a simple 4 port SATA card that will allow for raid, I took 2 500GB drives out of my DNS-323, and then I bought two more. My plan right now is to put 3 drives into a Raid config and then leave 1 free to use for snap backups and whatever I want. Since I didn’t want to turn this into a cash pig, but I wanted to play with as much functionality as I could.

Once I get the RAID config done then I can start backing up all of the machines at my house and giving some of the storage over to my VMs running in Fusion. Oh the fun.