Yes Paul, that is why I suggested a DL585, it has 3 *separate* PCI buses.

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Paul Keating wrote:

> And you'll likely max out the PCI bus well before that.....
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com]
>> Sent: August 22, 2006 10:25 AM
>> To: Lewick, Taylor
>> Cc: Paul Keating; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Help, media issues
>>
>>
>> Also, separate question, why would you ever put 30 drives on
>> a server?  I
>> guess if a lot of them are slow that might work, but most
>> servers cannot
>> handle more than 2-4 LTO2 drives and definitely not more than 4 LTO3
>> drives unless you have at least a DL585 + 10GBIT, even then
>> with 4 drives
>> you'll nearly max out the 10GBps card if you could push that much.