[olug] RAID chassis recommendations

[aric at omahax.com]

I know this misses your requirement by 2 drives but I have a couple of
Dell PowerEdge 2950s with FreeNAS  .... They are cheap, solid and I like
them alot.

Here are a couple quick ebay examples....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/POWEREDGE-2950-GEN-2-DUAL-2-66-DUAL-CORE-5150-8GB-1X73G-15K-SAS-RAID-DRAC-RPS-/170871894643

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-Gen-2-2950-2x-Dual-Core-2-66GHz-8GB-/180919031079

It is hard to beat for the money.


> I need a new drive array to use in my server rack at home.
> Minimum requirements:
>   * 2U tall
>   * holds at least 8 hot-swap SATA drives
>   * has at least 2 GigE NICs
>   * external USB3 is a plus, but not required
>
> I plan to run openfiler (or similar) on this.  It will initially be my
> backup array for all the machines in my house, but may eventually also
> host my (in-house) shared media from a different RAID set in the same
> chassis (hence the 8 drives).
>
> Anybody got any recommendations?  Quickly browsing NewEgg shows the
> cheapest matching chassis is $1100 (diskless), which seems a lot more
> expensive than I was expecting.
>
> If any of you have any recommendations on models, or even retailers,
> I'm all ears.
>
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